IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18571
accession number:	HEN.M.106A-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 8 January 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Breastplate with skirt-lame, for infantry or light cavalry use. The breastplate is of rounded form with a deep neck-opening and movable gussets of a later date at the arm-openings.  The neck-opening and gussets have bold, angular turns.  Those at the neck and right gusset are turned outwards, while that at the left gusset is turned inwards over wire.  The gussets are each retained top and bottom by a modern round-headed rivet and an octagonal internal washer.  The bottom rivet in each case moves within a slot cut in the gusset.  The breastplate is decorated with fluting arranged as two groups of five raised ribs that diverge upwards and outwards from the belly towards the shoulders.  A rivet-hole for the attachment of a shoulder-strap is pierced at the top of each shoulder.  Small holes of a later date are pierced just within each of the articulating rivets for the gussets, while a single hole and a pair of holes of slightly larger size are pierced, respectively, at the left and right lateral edges of the breastplate.  The lower edge of the breastplate is flanged outwards to receive a skirt.  The flange dips slightly to an obtuse point at its centre.  A crack towards its left end has been repaired with an internal patch secured by two rivets.  An associated and altered single lame of a skirt is attached to the waist-flange by a modern round-headed rivet at either end.  A large hole, probably of later date, is pierced a little below each of the rivets.  A pair of rivet-holes is pierced at the lower right corner and a single rivet-hole at the left lower corner of the lame.  The lower right corner of the lame is cropped.
title:	breastplate (body armour)

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/18571





TECHNIQUES
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the breastplate is of rounded form with a deep neck-opening and movable gussets of a later date at the arm-openings; hammered, shaped, riveted with fluted decoration and raised ribs
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1510 - 1510
creation date earliest:	1510
creation date latest:	1510
culture:	16th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 14.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 44.0

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 2.891

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 38.1