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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1610 - 1900; Classification(s): armour, breastplate (body armour), hammering, formed in one piece in the late 'peascod' fashion, with a flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, riveted, hinged, with file-roping and incised line decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.20B-1933]
Description: Breastplate, for field use, of great weight. Formed in one piece in the late 'peascod' fashion, with a flange at the waist. The arm-openings, the neck-opening and the waist-flange have file-roped inward turns bordered by single incised lines. The incised line at the neck-opening projects downwards as a narrow chevron at its centre. Riveted at each shoulder is a modern, single-ended tongued brass buckle with a roller to receive the shoulder-straps of the backplate. The buckle is located just below a vacant hole that may represent its original attachment-point. Incorrectly riveted beneath each armpit is a modern buff leather strap to connect the breastplate to a backplate. Riveted midway along each side of the waist, just above the angle of the flange, is a large hinge which is fitted at its distal end with a bolt and wing-nut for the attachment of tassets. The hinges may represent a later modification. Part of the composite armour HEN.M.20A-H-1933. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | armour Unknown breastplate (body armour) | Temporal: | name=early 17th Century; start=1610; end=1900 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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