Backplate (armour)
Category
Arms and armour
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal
Measurements
390 mm (Height)
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Dalton Castle, Cumbria
NT 418303
Summary
Backplate, 1630-40; leather straps broken off at shoulder. Dent at left hand side. Painted matt black and waxed. h. 39cm; 15½in. Wadham collection (see DAL.A.1).
Provenance
Part of the collection of armour acquired by Colonel Edward Wadham of Millwood, a late 19th-century agent to the Duke of Buccleuch. The whole collection was bought by Wadham at a sale in London. Some of it was kept by Wadham at Millwood; the rest was hung on the wall of the staircase at Dalton Castle. The armour in the castle was given to the Trust by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1965.