Gauntlet
Category
Arms and armour
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal
Measurements
230 mm (Length)
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Dalton Castle, Cumbria
NT 418325
Summary
Gauntlet, with brass rivets; fingers missing. Several holes. l. 23cm; 9in. Wadham collection (see DAL.A.1). Painted matt black and waxed.
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.