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Explore
the era of the knight in armor and the foot soldiers who fought beside and
against them!
See
how armor and weapons develop, how form follows function in their chronology and
development. See how their armor evolved and how it declined in the age of
gunpowder.
Ready
to start? Just select a category to start viewing the Castlerock
collection. Each item is pictured and described in detail.
NOTE:
It is our intention to place the entire collection of the Castlerock Museum
online. Obviously this involves a massive amount of cataloguing, pictures and
computer input. For instance we have over 100 different examples of pole arms
alone. . At this time we have now completed and are able to have most of our
dagger collection online and most of our helmet collection online. We will be
adding categories as soon as we feel we have a sufficiently representative group
in each of the other categories. Keep watching this site, as we will be
continually adding categories during the course of 2006. It is our intent that
all of the collection will be online and available by the close of 2007.
Categories online at this time:
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Daggers: A very
representative collection of daggers and dagger types, primarily from the 14th
C. through the 18th C. showing their evolvement and adaptations
to various needs and usages.) (Online by 4/1/06)
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Helmets: A
representative collection of European Helmets primarily spanning the period
of the 15th through the 18th C. showing the
development and changes in the helmets worn by the knights and by the
military fighting men of those days.
Categories, which will be online as we progress, will include:
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Armour: Including
complete suits of armour (harness) and many separate pieces such as
gauntlets, breast and back plates, gorgets, etc.
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Shields: Including
elaborate decorative parade shields and the defensive shields of the man in
the field.
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Combination Weapons:
Including combination gun-shields, gun-war hammers, war hammer-swords,
polearm halberd-guns, and concealed dagger types.
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Staff Weapons: A
very extensive collection of the typology and history of development of the
staff weapons or polearms used primarily by the soldiers on foot as they
fought against and with the mounted knights but also including the war lance
and other polearms used by mounted knights and cavalry.)
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Horse Armour: To
include shaffrons, saddle components and other pieces of protective horse
armour.
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Misc. Arms and Armour:
Which will include such items as a working model miniature catapult circa
1650, a miniature 16th C. armourer’s model of horse armour and
various other items of the period which do not fit in the broader categories
listed above.
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