Spaulder (part) mid to late 16th c.
5 plates tapering from the shoulder to the elbow. For the left arm. Lower plate with inward turned plain roll at the bottom. Of large size. Plates originally secured by sliding rivets at the rear and internal leathers at the front and center. Pairs of rivets in each plate to secure the leathers. Two additional leathers at the front and rear edge continuing around the lower edge almost entirely lost. Disarticulated - most of the leathers broken and lost. Iron rivets with dapped copper alloy caps (one missing its cap). Full inward turned roll on the front of the plates. Bump (hollow) roll at the rear. Plate edges decorated with parallel incised lines and beveled edge. Marked internally on the top plate with "2009.6.92." Small portions of leathers remain. The dapped caps are atypically large, but they appear to be original. It is possible that the larger heads were made to go with the large size of the piece. This is probably missing one narrow upper plate. This plate would have been relatively flat and have a roll around the outer edge. At first glance I thought that this was a munion shoulder, but it matches so closely to the form of item number A-392 that I think that this was another spaulder in the same series.
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