IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18287 accession number: HEN.M.33-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 25 November 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Comb morion, for infantry use, with a blackened finish. Formed in one piece with a rounded crown that curves down at each side and rises to a high, roped, medial comb; and an integral brim that is turned down at each side and curves up to a point at the front and rear. The edge of the brim has a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a narrow, recessed border. The comb is decorated with single incised lines at its crest and base. The base of the skull is encircled by fourteen round-headed rivets fitted with brass rosette washers externally, and square iron washers internally. The rivets retain a linen lining-band. Two of the rivets at each side retain fragments of the leathers for the attachment of the missing cheek-pieces. A pair of rivet-holes pierced at the nape, just above the level of the lining-rivets, served to attach a missing plume-holder. One of the holes is occupied by the stump of a rivet. The helmet has suffered denting at the crest of its comb, and has lost the tip of its point at the front end of the brim. title: comb morion NOTES ----- type: history note value: An undated, illustrated circular, formerly in the possession of Gerald I. Mungcam Esq. (photograph of it held by the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds), shows that this was one of a series of such morions offered for sale by Fenton & Sons, 11 New Oxford Street, London, for a price of £5. 5s. 0d. each. 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/18287 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in one piece with a rounded crown that curves down at each side and rises to a high, roped, medial comb; and an integral brim that is turned down at each side and curves up to a point at the front and rear; hammered, shaped, riveted, with recessed borders, and incised and file-roped decoration on a blackened ground hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1580 - 1580 creation date earliest: 1580 creation date latest: 1580 culture: 16th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 32.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 27 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.91 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.6 CITATIONS -------- European Armour in the Tower of London ---