1592964547000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-18595 1747160048646 1714464914000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-18595 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18595 c526f71b-4d68-3550-b319-dfd1c76b9b37 6 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 modern reference term-37424 adlib-term-37424 3a890bca-aa0e-3843-a2b9-703f4443354c iron (metal) Buckle Borders reference term-120081 adlib-term-120081 857eb822-7a08-3da4-989b-401727b75e7c recessing Parts reference term-27411 adlib-term-27411 d5416ce2-4425-321c-af5c-8cb76b80a1b0 riveted Applied Arts 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 HEN.M.117A-1933 1 accession number HEN.M.117A-1933 18595 priref 18595 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18595 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18595 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 1575 1575 1575 circa 1575 1580 1 1580 1580 1580 possibly production reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown The breastplate is bright with light to medium pitting and patination overall. This breastplate is very long and has the characteristic ‘peascod’ shape, where the lower abdomen is emphasised. This fashion was copied from civilian men’s doublets in the early Elizabethan period which were padded over the lower stomach to create a ‘pouter pigeon’ or peascod silhouette. possibly Flemish reference term-106402 adlib-term-106402 7466a5d6-293f-3bbc-9672-fa9dd41712be 16th Century, Late reference term-40136 adlib-term-40136 28e1cd6e-7c25-339f-8cd2-2aaae536a0c5 steel Depth cm 16.6 Height cm 43.5 Weight kg 2.87 Width cm 35.9 reference term-77604 adlib-term-77604 0579b348-97ab-388c-ba51-27c35d51bf4e breastplate (body armour) history note Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. 1 reference object-18596 adlib-object-18596 95e897a4-a0fe-366b-8c26-17290d6fd6e7

1 reference 1 term-77602 adlib-term-77602 2abc88dc-70de-3d3b-8878-e140ec17e353 backplate (body armour)

backplate (body armour) reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum

reference term-77604 adlib-term-77604 0579b348-97ab-388c-ba51-27c35d51bf4e breastplate (body armour)

breastplate (body armour) formed in one-piece, in the 'peascod' fashion; hammered, shaped, riveted, with recessed borders reference term-28775 adlib-term-28775 bbe63841-d546-33c4-ab44-2958e6dce7b2 hammered reference term-120073 adlib-term-120073 8f03d319-c397-37c8-a0e8-e23ef3cfdbbc patinating reference term-25748 adlib-term-25748 28a2a6ad-b9a5-33ca-982f-af924c102b3a formed object OBJECT