IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18322 accession number: HEN.M.49-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 'Spanish' morion, for infantry use, with a blackened finish. Formed in one piece with an almond-shaped crown that rises to a backward-directed stalk at its apex, and a flat, narrow, integral brim that projects to an obtuse point at the front and rear. The brim has a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a narrow, recessed border. The base of the crown is encircled by twelve round-headed lining-rivets fitted with external brass rosette washers and circular internal washers. The latter retain the greater part of a linen lining-band and fragments of the leathers for the attachment of the missing cheek-pieces. A pair of holes at the nape originally served to attach a missing plume-holder. The left hole is occupied by a round-headed rivet and rosette washer matching the others. The right hole has at some time been opened out, and then subsequently closed to its original size by welding. The right side of both the crown and the brim have suffered some minor denting. title: Spanish 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/18322 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in one piece with an almond-shaped crown that rises to a backward-directed stalk at its apex, and a flat, narrow, integral brim that projects to an obtuse point at the front and rear; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with a recessed border, file-roping 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: 31.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.4 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.26 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.5