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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1470 - 1500; Classification(s): armour, mail shirt, riveting, formed of fairly small rings of oval-section wire with riveted joints throughout; Acquisition: given by Cripps-Day, Francis Henry, 1941-06, Given by Mr F.H. Cripps-Day [M.13I-1941]
Description: Mail shirt for field use. Formed of fairly small rings of oval-section wire with riveted joints throughout. The rings are of a heavier construction over the chest and back than elsewhere. The shirt opens all the way down the front. It is of mid-thigh length, with a square-cut neck, and sleeves that extend to just below the elbows, and a central division to the crotch at the rear of the skirt. A line of smaller links down the centre of the back suggests that the shirt has been altered or repaired at some time, perhaps during its working life. A number of links are missing throughout the shirt, especially at its edges. The shirt is bright with light patination throughout. 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 mail shirt | Temporal: | name=late 15th century; start=1470; 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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