Arm guard
Category
Arms and armour
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal
Measurements
300 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Dalton Castle, Cumbria
NT 418307
Summary
Shoulder and upper arm guard for left arm, the lames held by leather straps. Brass rivets. Painted matt black and waxed. l. 30cm. 12in. 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.