Tasset (right)
Exeter has a large and important collection of armour dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. It was stored at Rougemont Castle in Exeter, and last used during the civil war of the 1640s. Tassets hung from the breastplate to protect the thighs.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- A4396
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- metaliron
- Common Name
- tasset (right)
- Simple Name
- armour
- Period Classification
- Charles I (1625-1649); Commonwealth (1649-1660); James I (1603-1625)
