Backplate (armour)
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1810
Materials
Metal
Measurements
38.2 cm (H)35.7 cm (W)
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 1429702
Summary
CUIRASSIER'S BACKPLATE; With a raised neck and no flange at the waist. All the edges have plain inward turns, bordered by lining rivet holes. At either shoulder and at either side of the waist are pairs of rivet holes for straps. All the rivets have been removed, and the piece has been artificially aged in order to pass as part of a composite armour, probabaly as part of the made-up pikeman's armour including CHS/S/23
Provenance
This is most likely one of the large series of cuirassiers' breast and back plates captured at Waterloo in 1815, and deposited in the Tower of London shortly afterwards