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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1610; Classification(s): armour, backplate (body armour), hammering, the backplate is formed in one piece with a broad, shallow neck-opening and a short 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.20D-1933]
Description: Backplate with associated skirt. The backplate is formed in one piece with a broad, shallow neck-opening and a short flange at the waist. The arm-openings and the neck-opening have file-roped inward turns bordered by single incised lines. The incised line around the neck-opening projects downwards as a narrow chevron at its centre. The backplate is decorated with three pairs of incised lines that diverge from its waist to the centres of its neck and arm-openings. A modern shoulder-strap is riveted at each shoulder. Modern single-ended tongued iron buckles have been incorrectly riveted beneath each armpit to connect the backplate to a breastplate. A pair of holes are pierced at each side of the waist for the attachment of a missing waist-belt. A later bolt of uncertain function protrudes internally from the centre of the waist-flange. Attached by a modern round-headed screw and square nut at each side of the waist-flange is an associated skirt formed of two plates joined medially by an internal hinge. The skirt is transversely boxed and decorated with a file-roped rib along the angle of the boxing. Each side of the skirt is pierced near its upper edge with a horizontal slot that would originally have served to suspend it from pierced rectangular studs projecting from the waist-flange of the backplate. The upper edge of the skirt is decorated with a single incised. line. A double-ended tongued iron buckle of uncertain function is riveted at each side of the lower edge of the skirt. Pairs of leathering-rivets at the lower edge of the skirt show that it would originally have been extended downwards by one or more lames. 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 backplate (body armour) | Temporal: | name=early 17th Century; start=1610; end=1610 | 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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