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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1530 - 1570; Classification(s): armour, codpiece, hammered, made from a single piece of metal of sub-cylindrical form that expands slightly to its domed, medially-ridged front end and is flanged outwards at its rear end; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with a vertical recessed band; Acquisition: given by Stead, E.W. and Gilbert, 1936-01-15, Given by Mrs E.W. Stead and Mr Gilbert Stead [M.1.4C-1936]
Description: Codpiece, for infantry use. Made from a single piece of metal of sub-cylindrical form that expands slightly to its domed front end and is flanged outwards at its rear end. The front end is decorated with a medially-ridged, vertical recessed band. The upper and lower edges of the flange at the rear are obtusely pointed at their centres. Riveted at the centre of the upper edge is a transversely-pierced stud of rounded rectangular section with an octagonal, internal washer. The stud served to attach the codpiece to the lower edge of the skirt of the breastplate. Part of the composite half armour M.1.4A-E-1936. | 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 codpiece Unknown | Temporal: | name=mid-16th Century; start=1530; end=1570 | 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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