IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18507 accession number: HEN.M.83-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 28 February 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Burgonet, for light field use, decorated with bands amid borders in the 'black and white' fashion. Formed of a rounded one-piece skull with a high roped comb and an integral peak, a pair of hinged cheek-pieces, and a neck-defence of four upward-overlapping lames. The slightly downturned, medially-ridged peak projects forward to an obtuse central point. Each cheek-piece is pierced with five small ventilation-holes within a circular central boss. The lower edge of the cheek-piece is flanged outwards to serve as a continuation of the neck-defence. Like the neck-defence, the flange of the cheek-piece is unusually deep. The main edges of the burgonet, except for those at the front of each cheek-piece, have file-roped inward turns. The burgonet is decorated with recessed bands and borders in the 'black and white' fashion. The intervening spaces were originally black from the hammer, but have since been polished bright. title: burgonet 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/18507 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a rounded one-piece skull with a high roped comb and an integral peak, a pair of hinged cheek-pieces, and a neck-defence of four upward-overlapping lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, with pierced ventilation-holes, and decorated with recessed bands and borders in the 'black and white' fashion, with file-roping hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1580 - 1580 creation date earliest: 1580 creation date latest: 1580 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 32.0 dimension: Height units: cm value: 32.7 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 28.5