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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1500 - 1510; Classification(s): armour, sallet, hammered, formed of a one-piece skull, a deep, pivoted visor and a laminated neck-defence; hammered, shaped, riveted, with embossed decoration, pierced holes for ventilation; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.55-1933]
Description: Sallet, with a movable visor, for heavy field use. Formed of a one-piece skull, a deep, pivoted visor and a laminated neck-defence. The skull has a broad, rounded crown, and extends downwards at the sides to just above the level of the shoulders where its edge has a plain, partial, inward turn. It has a broad, arched face-opening at the front, and an arched cut-out at the nape to receive the neck-defense. The base of the crown is encircled by nineteen lining-rivets, of which the central one at the front is missing. The rear eight, lacking their internal washers, are round-headed, while the remainder, which sit beneath the visor, are externally flush. A pair of lace-holes at the apex of the skull, two pairs at its rear, and a further pair at either side of the neck served to secure the lining. Those at either side of the neck are now filled by later round-headed rivets. At the bottom left corner of the face-opening is riveted a small, circular stud to engage a corresponding hole in the left of the visor. The visor is attached to the skull by a pair of riveted pivots with low, slightly rounded, radially-fluted heads and octagonal internal washers. The visor has short arms shaped around the pivots, a stepped, centrally-divided vision-slit, and is strongly embossed over the point of the chin where it is pierced with eight small ventilation-holes arranged as a triangular group of three at either side and a vertically aligned pair at the centre. It is embossed a short distance below the vision-slit with a pronounced, transverse ridge. The concave space between this ridge and the step of the vision-slit is pierced with six vertical ventilation-slots. The lower edge of the visor has a plain, partial inward turn, matching and continuing that of the skull. The same is true of the main edge of the neck-defence which is formed of four downward-overlapping lames connected to one another and the skull, respectively, by a round-headed rivet and internal washer at either side. The last lame is longer than the rest and has a rounded end. | 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 sallet Unknown | Temporal: | name=early 16th Century; start=1500; end=1510 | 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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