IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18071
accession number:	HEN.M.21A-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 30 June 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Breastplate, for use by an harquebusier. Formed in one piece with a narrow, upward-flanged neck-opening, and a short flange at the waist.  It is medially-ridged and dips down at the centre of the waist.  Its arm and neck-openings have plain inward turns.  The turn at the neck-opening is cracked and damaged at the left side.  A later wiring-hole is pierced at each side of the neck-opening.  A mushroom-shaped stud, to engage the shoulder-straps of the backplate, is riveted high up at each side of the chest.  The left side of the breastplate is struck with the proof-mark of a bullet. Part of the incomplete half-armour HEN.M.21A-C-1933.
title:	breastplate (body armour)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of  'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J.S. Henderson
creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18071





TECHNIQUES
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formed in one piece with a narrow, upward-flanged neck-opening, and a short flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, riveted, medially-ridged
hammering
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
TECHNIQUES
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forming

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1640 - 1650
creation date earliest:	1640
creation date latest:	1650
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 17.0

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 39.0

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 4.09

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 34.5