IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18595 accession number: HEN.M.117A-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Breastplate, for medium or light field use. Formed in one piece, in the `peascod' fashion. The neck and arm-openings have roped inward turns accompanied by shallow, recessed borders. The border at the neck descends as a V-shaped projection at its centre. The turn at the left arm-opening is damaged just below its centre. Pierced at each shoulder is a rivet-hole for the attachment of a shoulder-strap. The hole is now occupied by a modern round-headed rivet. A similar rivet with a square, external washer, occupying a later hole pierced just above it, retains a modern strap and double-ended, tongued, iron buckle with simple filed decoration. The lower edge of the breastplate is flanged outwards to receive a skirt. The flange is pierced at either end with a rivet-hole for the attachment of the skirt. The left hole is occupied by a later rivet with a flat, internal head. The centre of the flange is cusped and pierced with a further rivet-hole, possibly for an internal connecting leather that ran down the centre of the skirt. Riveted about two-thirds of the way along each side of the flange is a modern hook, formed of a strip of sheet metal, probably intended to support a belt. A hole, now plugged by a modern, externally flush rivet, is pierced at either side of the chest. The hole was probably intended to receive a pierced stud to engage a shoulder-strap in the seventeenth century fashion, suggesting that the breastplate had an extended working life. Together with the backplate HEN.M.117B-1933 title: breastplate (body armour) 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/18595 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in one-piece, in the 'peascod' fashion; hammered, shaped, riveted, with recessed borders hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1575 - 1580 creation date earliest: 1575 creation date latest: 1580 culture: 16th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 16.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 43.5 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 2.87 dimension: Width units: cm value: 35.9