1592999391000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-18556 1747246373551 1745939259000 1747245848890 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-18556 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18556 85101e8f-83be-317b-814a-a5a2e20e5d54 7 reference term-106608 adlib-term-106608 85afe28f-82f6-3c45-843f-9fa087e98260 armour reference term-108941 adlib-term-108941 bda2218a-91c2-3b79-99c1-49e47cc3aff1 J.S. Henderson reference term-39404 adlib-term-39404 500e7e72-3c4b-30c9-87d9-210e07b236ff cloth Lining-bands reference term-40902 adlib-term-40902 ec39a220-e629-3548-92f0-14937d5d3167 leather Loops Borders reference term-120081 adlib-term-120081 857eb822-7a08-3da4-989b-401727b75e7c recessing Neck-defence reference term-26881 adlib-term-26881 88d2ea1e-d238-34e8-8bde-82e4187f5ad4 embossing Parts reference term-27411 adlib-term-27411 d5416ce2-4425-321c-af5c-8cb76b80a1b0 riveted Applied Arts Pot helmet, for use by an harquebusier. Formed of a skull, a pivoted peak with triple-bar face-defence, a neck-defence of two lames, and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces. The hemispherical skull is formed in two halves joined by a turn to the left along a low medial comb. The moderately broad, slightly downturned and obtusely-pointed peak is fitted on its underside with a face-defence formed of three bars of square section that are joined together in a forward-projecting scroll under the chin. The neck-defence is formed of two lames of which the longer upper one is embossed to simulate three lames. The cheek-pieces, which are now detached, have curved front and rear edges that converge towards their lower end where they are fitted with leather loops forming the ends of the lining-bands. The skull and neck-defence retain fragments of a fabric lining-band. The main edges of the helmet have plain inward turns accompanied, in the case of the peak and the neck-defence, by recessed borders. HEN.M.102-1933 1 accession number HEN.M.102-1933 18556 priref 18556 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18556 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18556 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum J.S. Henderson Bequest reference agent-154334 adlib-agent-154334 28c0c8e2-3ec7-3d3a-9e13-b60fa3a6b434 Henderson, James Stewart 1933 1933 1933-03-16 bequeathed Entry date: 1933-03-16 1640 CE 1640 circa 1640 reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown English, probably London The helmet is painted black over heavy pitting. This type of helmet was used by horsemen armed with short firearms called harquebusiers and was very common during the British Civil Wars of the 1640s. The ‘tail’ at the rear has also given rise to the name ‘lobster-tail pot’. It would originally have had cheekpieces on either side from which a ribbon or lace would have secured it to the head. reference term-113347 adlib-term-113347 b3865e14-c2dc-3722-935d-b7697edeab4e 17th Century, Mid reference term-106216 adlib-term-106216 825b8379-ec94-388e-9a59-624e40c090d0 literal England England country probably London reference term-40136 adlib-term-40136 28e1cd6e-7c25-339f-8cd2-2aaae536a0c5 steel Depth cm 33.5 Height cm 31.2 Weight kg 1.98 Width cm 23.2 reference term-109016 adlib-term-109016 bf5429ad-3b00-337c-a10b-dd21e613e744 pot helmet history note A detached wooden tag states that the helmet was acquired from the Tower of London Armoury, 1926. Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum

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pot helmet formed of a skull, a pivoted peak with triple-bar face-defence, a neck-defence of two lames, and a pair of pendant cheek-pieces; hammered, shaped, riveted, with embossed neck-defence and recessed borders reference term-28775 adlib-term-28775 bbe63841-d546-33c4-ab44-2958e6dce7b2 hammered black reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-25748 adlib-term-25748 28a2a6ad-b9a5-33ca-982f-af924c102b3a formed object OBJECT