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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1500; Classification(s): armour, kettle hat, hammered, of one-piece construction with a medially-ridged, hemispherical crown and a broad, downturned brim projecting as an obtuse point front and rear; hammered, shaped, riveted; Acquisition: given by Cripps-Day, Francis Henry, 1941-06, Given by Mr F.H. Cripps-Day [M.13A-1941]
Description: Kettle hat, of munition quality, for field use. Of one-piece construction with a medially-ridged, hemispherical crown and a broad, downturned brim projecting as an obtuse point front and rear. The edge of the brim has a plain, inward turn bordered by eighteen holes for lining-rivets. Two more such holes may have existed at the front and rear of the brim respectively, but have become obscured by later repairs. The base of the crown is encircled by twelve holes for lining-rivets, two of which on either side are occupied by externally-flush rivets.
The skull is pierced with numerous holes, some of which are man-made, and some the result of corrosion. Large holes at the top rear of the skull, and two smaller holes at the left of the brow have been repaired with riveted and welded internal patches, as has a large section of the left edge of the brim. Large cracks in the centre of both the front and rear of the brim have been repaired by brazing. Part of the composite Spanish armour M.13A-K-1941. | 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 kettle hat | Temporal: | name=early 16th Century; start=1500; end=1500 | 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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