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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1800 - 1933; Classification(s): armour, besagew, hammered, formed of a circular plate rising to a prominent conical boss at its centre, and decorated around its edge with a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border containing nine round-headed lining-rivets; hammered, shaped, riveted, with file-roped decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.132-1933]
Description: Besague, for field use. Formed of a circular plate rising to a prominent conical boss at its centre, and decorated around its edge with a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border containing nine round-headed lining-rivets. The central boss is surrounded by three round-headed rivets with circular internal washers that retain an internal, leather suspension-tab. Rust-perforations adjacent to the rivets have been repaired with riveted internal patches. | 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 besagew Unknown | Temporal: | name=19th/20th Century; start=1800; end=1933 | 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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