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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1630; Classification(s): armour, pot helmet, hammered, formed in two halves joined medially by a turn along a moderately high comb, and by a riveted overlap at the front and rear ends of a broad, downturned integral brim; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with a recessed border and incised lines; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.50-1933]
Description: Pot helmet for use by a pikeman. Formed in two halves joined medially by a turn along a moderately high comb, and by a riveted overlap at the front and rear ends of a broad, downturned integral brim. The brim has a plain inward turn accompanied by a recessed border containing thirty-three round-headed lining-rivets with circular internal washers. The base of the crown is encircled by twenty-two round-headed lining-rivets. The crown is decorated around its base and to either side of its comb with pairs of incised lines. The helmet lacks its cheek-pieces. | 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 pot helmet | Temporal: | name=early 17th Century; start=1630; end=1630 | 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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