IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18288 accession number: HEN.M.34-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 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 fairly 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 pairs of incised lines at its base. The base of the skull was originally encircled by eighteen round-headed lining-rivets fitted with brass rosette rivets externally, and circular iron washers internally. Two of the rivets at the right side are missing, and many of the remainder lack their internal washers. The surviving washers retain fragments of a linen lining-band. One of the rivets at each side retains 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. The helmet shows a small crack at the right side of its brim, and a larger one at the front end of the left side of its 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. J.S. Henderson Bequest 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/18288 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in one piece with a rounded crown that curves down at each side and rises to a fairly 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: 38.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 27 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.1 CITATIONS -------- European Armour in the Tower of London ---