IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18614 accession number: HEN.M.132-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Besague, for field use. Formed of a circular plate rising to a prominent conical boss at its centre, and decorated around its edge with a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border containing nine round-headed lining-rivets. The central boss is surrounded by three round-headed rivets with circular internal washers that retain an internal, leather suspension-tab. Rust-perforations adjacent to the rivets have been repaired with riveted internal patches. title: besagew 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/18614 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed of a circular plate rising to a prominent conical boss at its centre, and decorated around its edge with a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border containing nine round-headed lining-rivets; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped decoration hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1933 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1933 culture: 19th Century-20th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 13.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 0.1