IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18594
accession number:	HEN.M.116-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 20 April 2012

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Breastplate, for infantry use. Formed of a medially-ridged main plate and a waist-lame of deep-bellied form.  The main plate has concave neck and arm-openings.  The neck-opening has a file-roped inward turn bordered by a V-shaped rib enclosed by a pair of incised lines.  The arm-openings are each bordered by an incised line and pierced at their upper and lower ends with a rivet-hole for the attachment of a missing gusset.  Pierced just below each armpit is a later wiring-hole.  Pierced to either side of the neck-opening is a rivet-hole for the attachment of a missing shoulder-strap.  Overlapping the lower edge of the main plate, and attached to it at either side by a modern round-headed rivet, is a deep waist-plate which is bordered at its upper edge by a single incised line, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a skirt.  The flange is pierced at either side with a rivet-hole for the attachment of a missing skirt.  Later wiring-holes are pierced just to the outside of each of these rivet-holes, and to either side of the waist, just above the angle of the flange.
title:	breastplate (body armour)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From the armoury of the Earls of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire, sold by Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1917, 23 June 1921 and 14 June 1923. 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/18594





TECHNIQUES
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formed of a medially-ridged main plate and a waist-lame of deep-bellied form; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped and incised decoration
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1555 - 1555
creation date earliest:	1555
creation date latest:	1555
culture:	16th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 18.0

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 45.3

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 4.19

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 36.3



CITATIONS
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Recollections of the Wilton Armoury
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