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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1580; Classification(s): armour, comb morion, hammered, formed in one piece with a rounded crown that curves down at each side and rises to a high, roped, medial comb; and an integral brim that is turned down at each side and curves up to a point at the front and rear; hammered, shaped, riveted, with recessed borders, and incised and file-roped decoration on a blackened ground; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.33-1933]
Description: Comb morion, for infantry use, with a blackened finish. Formed in one piece with a rounded crown that curves down at each side and rises to a high, roped, medial comb; and an integral brim that is turned down at each side and curves up to a point at the front and rear. The edge of the brim has a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a narrow, recessed border. The comb is decorated with single incised lines at its crest and base. The base of the skull is encircled by fourteen round-headed rivets fitted with brass rosette washers externally, and square iron washers internally. The rivets retain a linen lining-band. Two of the rivets at each side retain fragments of the leathers for the attachment of the missing cheek-pieces. A pair of rivet-holes pierced at the nape, just above the level of the lining-rivets, served to attach a missing plume-holder. One of the holes is occupied by the stump of a rivet.
The helmet has suffered denting at the crest of its comb, and has lost the tip of its point at the front end of the brim. | 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: | comb morion armour Unknown | Temporal: | name=late 16th Century; start=1580; end=1580 | 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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