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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1575 - 1580; Classification(s): armour, breastplate (body armour), hammered, formed in one-piece, in the 'peascod' fashion; hammered, shaped, riveted, with recessed borders; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.117A-1933]
Description: Breastplate, for medium or light field use. Formed in one piece, in the `peascod' fashion. The neck and arm-openings have roped inward turns accompanied by shallow, recessed borders. The border at the neck descends as a V-shaped projection at its centre. The turn at the left arm-opening is damaged just below its centre. Pierced at each shoulder is a rivet-hole for the attachment of a shoulder-strap. The hole is now occupied by a modern round-headed rivet. A similar rivet with a square, external washer, occupying a later hole pierced just above it, retains a modern strap and double-ended, tongued, iron buckle with simple filed decoration. The lower edge of the breastplate is flanged outwards to receive a skirt. The flange is pierced at either end with a rivet-hole for the attachment of the skirt. The left hole is occupied by a later rivet with a flat, internal head. The centre of the flange is cusped and pierced with a further rivet-hole, possibly for an internal connecting leather that ran down the centre of the skirt. Riveted about two-thirds of the way along each side of the flange is a modern hook, formed of a strip of sheet metal, probably intended to support a belt. A hole, now plugged by a modern, externally flush rivet, is pierced at either side of the chest. The hole was probably intended to receive a pierced stud to engage a shoulder-strap in the seventeenth century fashion, suggesting that the breastplate had an extended working life. Together with the backplate HEN.M.117B-1933 | 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 breastplate (body armour) | Temporal: | name=late 16th Century; start=1575; 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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