diff --git a/src/HPCloud/Storage/ObjectStorage/Object.php b/src/HPCloud/Storage/ObjectStorage/Object.php
index c03237f..90b87a9 100644
--- a/src/HPCloud/Storage/ObjectStorage/Object.php
+++ b/src/HPCloud/Storage/ObjectStorage/Object.php
@@ -451,6 +451,28 @@ class Object {
     return $this->additionalHeaders;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Remove headers.
+   *
+   * This takes an array of header names, and removes
+   * any matching headers. Typically, only headers set
+   * by setAdditionalHeaders() are removed from an Object.
+   * (RemoteObject works differently).
+   *
+   * @attention
+   *   Many headers are generated automatically, such as
+   *   Content-Type and Content-Length. Removing these
+   *   will simply result in their being regenerated.
+   *
+   * @param array $keys
+   *   The header names to be removed.
+   */
+  public function removeHeaders($keys) {
+    foreach ($keys as $k) {
+      unset($this->additionalHeaders[$k]);
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * This object should be transmitted in chunks.
    *
diff --git a/src/HPCloud/Storage/ObjectStorage/RemoteObject.php b/src/HPCloud/Storage/ObjectStorage/RemoteObject.php
index a7291f1..08b0891 100644
--- a/src/HPCloud/Storage/ObjectStorage/RemoteObject.php
+++ b/src/HPCloud/Storage/ObjectStorage/RemoteObject.php
@@ -296,8 +296,22 @@ class RemoteObject extends Object {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Given an array of keys, remove the headers.
+   * Given an array of header names.
    *
+   * This will remove the given headers from the existing headers.
+   * Both additional headers and the original headers from the
+   * server are affected here.
+   *
+   * Note that you cannot remove metadata through this mechanism,
+   * as it is managed using the metadata() methods.
+   *
+   * @attention
+   *   Many headers are generated automatically, such as
+   *   Content-Type and Content-Length. Removing these
+   *   will simply result in their being regenerated.
+   *
+   * @param array $keys
+   *   The header names to be removed.
    */
   public function removeHeaders($keys) {
     foreach ($keys as $key) {
diff --git a/test/Tests/ObjectTest.php b/test/Tests/ObjectTest.php
index c7a1d3c..2e18716 100644
--- a/test/Tests/ObjectTest.php
+++ b/test/Tests/ObjectTest.php
@@ -131,4 +131,24 @@ class ObjectTest extends \HPCloud\Tests\TestCase {
     $this->assertEquals('Leibniz', $got['Gottfried']);
 
   }
+
+  public function testAdditionalHeaders() {
+    $o = $this->basicObjectFixture();
+
+    $extra = array(
+      'a' => 'b',
+      'aaa' => 'bbb',
+      'ccc' => 'bbb',
+    );
+    $o->setAdditionalHeaders($extra);
+
+    $got = $o->additionalHeaders();
+    $this->assertEquals(3, count($got));
+
+    $o->removeHeaders(array('ccc'));
+
+
+    $got = $o->additionalHeaders();
+    $this->assertEquals(2, count($got));
+  }
 }
diff --git a/test/Tests/RemoteObjectTest.php b/test/Tests/RemoteObjectTest.php
index 3d6768b..916db9a 100644
--- a/test/Tests/RemoteObjectTest.php
+++ b/test/Tests/RemoteObjectTest.php
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ class RemoteObjectTest extends \HPCloud\Tests\TestCase {
     $object->setMetadata(array(self::FMETA_NAME => self::FMETA_VALUE));
     $object->setDisposition(self::FDISPOSITION);
     $object->setEncoding(self::FENCODING);
+    $object->setAdditionalHeaders(array(
+      'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' => 'http://example.com',
+      'Access-control-allow-origin' => 'http://example.com',
+    ));
 
     // Need some headers that Swift actually stores and returns. This
     // one does not seem to be returned ever.
@@ -146,6 +150,15 @@ class RemoteObjectTest extends \HPCloud\Tests\TestCase {
     $headers = $obj->headers();
     $this->assertTrue(count($headers) > 1);
 
+    fwrite(STDOUT, print_r($headers, TRUE));
+
+    $this->assertNotEmpty($headers['Date']);
+
+    $obj->removeHeaders(array('Date'));
+
+    $headers = $obj->headers();
+    $this->assertFalse(isset($headers['Date']));
+
     // Swift doesn't return CORS headers even though it is supposed to.
     //$this->assertEquals(self::FCORS_VALUE, $headers[self::FCORS_NAME]);
   }