IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18551
accession number:	HEN.M.99-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 11 August 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pot helmet, for use by an harquebusier. Formed of a two piece skull with a broad, flat integral peak, joined by rivets along a low medial ridge, a one-piece neck-defence embossed to simulate three lames, a pair of pendant cheek-pieces and a sliding nasal-bar with retaining staple and wing-headed locking-screw.  The neck-defence is repaired with a riveted internal patch of each of its upper corners.  The forward-curving cheek-pieces narrow to their rounded lower ends.  The left one shows traces of a recessed border that has subsequently been hammered out.  The main edges of the helmet have plain inward turns.
The cheek-pieces are not a pair.  They and the neck-defence are associated with the skull.  The nasal-bar, retaining staple and locking-screw are modern restorations.
title:	pot helmet

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of  'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J.S. Henderson
creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18551





TECHNIQUES
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formed of a two-piece skull with a broad, flat integral peak, joined by rivets along a medial ridge, a one-piece neck-defence embossed to simulate three lames, a pair of pendant cheek-pieces and a sliding nasal-bar with retaining staple and wing-headed locking-screw; hammered, shaped, riveted, with traces of a recessed border
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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painting
TECHNIQUES
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1640 - 1640
creation date earliest:	1640
creation date latest:	1640
culture:	17th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 36.0

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 28.5

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 1.63

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 24.5