IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18102 accession number: HEN.M.23D-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 8 January 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Backplate for use by a pikeman. Formed in one piece with a wide neck-opening and a narrow waist-flange. The neck-openings, the arm openings and the waist-flange all have plain inward turns. The turns at the neck-openings and the arm-openings are bordered by single incised lines. The backplate is fitted with modern buff-leather shoulder-straps and a waist-belt. The shoulder straps terminate in original pierced hasps and are secured beneath scales that are probably also original. The left strap of the waist-belt terminates in a modern, single-ended, tongued iron buckle. The right side of the waist-flange is pierced with a large hole. Part of the composite pikeman's armour HEN.M.23A-D-1933. title: backplate (body armour) 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/18102 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in one piece with a wide neck-opening and a narrow waist-flange; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with incised lines hammering TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating 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: 14.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 37.0 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.72 dimension: Width units: cm value: 37.0