IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18096 accession number: HEN.M.23A-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 8 January 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pot helmet for use by a pikeman. Formed in two halves with a hemispherical crown joined by a turn along is a low, medial comb, and furnished with an integral, downturned brim that is obtusely pointed front and rear. The base of the crown and the edge of the brim are each encircled by modern round-headed lining-rivets. The brim, which has a plain, inward-turned edge, is pierced at one end with a large, modern wiring-hole, and shows some cracks in its edge. Part of the composite pikeman's armour HEN.M.23A-D-1933. title: pot helmet NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18096 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in two halves with a hemispherical crown joined by a turn along is a low, medial comb, and furnished with an integral, downturned brim that is obtusely pointed front and rear; hammered, shaped, riveted hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1640 - 1640 creation date earliest: 1640 creation date latest: 1640 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 35.0 dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.7 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.21 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.2