IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18595
accession number:	HEN.M.117A-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 30 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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/18595





TECHNIQUES
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formed in one-piece, in the 'peascod' fashion; hammered, shaped, riveted, with recessed borders
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
TECHNIQUES
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1575 - 1580
creation date earliest:	1575
creation date latest:	1580
culture:	16th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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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