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Of course, expensive suit of mail or plate and good swords would have been looked after with more care, but since these are so expensive I imagine that they actually stayed in the lords private rooms, possibly in good solid oak chests. The idea of special rooms for various things is not really a medieval one. Most medieval rooms had several functions. Halls were for meetings and dining and often for sleeping for servants. Bedchambers were also sitting rooms and bathrooms (if you brought in a bathtub). Toilets were also where you hung your clothes. Even chapels sometimes doubled up as the place where the portcullis was worked from. Storage rooms could be used for storing all sorts of things, including weapons and prisoners (Though not at the same time). I could provide a floorplans of various cellars but basically these are thick walled rooms, usually rectangular, sometimes circular, with a door and small slit windows high up in the walls. There is nothing special about them. In the post medieval period, when the state became more centralised and stronger, people were no longer expected to own weapons and castles then often became places to store the weapons and armour of the militia. But again these weapons were stored where convienant. In Dover castle the great central keep was used, not just the lower cellars but also the great hall and bedchamber (these no longer being in use). Weapons, like muskets, which need particular care may have been stored in wooden racks. The White Tower of the Tower of London http://www.hrp.org.uk/tol/indextol.htm still holds part of the royal collection of armour as part of the Royal Armouries http://www.armouries.org.uk/ ------------------ [This message has been edited by Philip Davis (edited 03-03-2000).] For pictures of weaponry, you could also try the Royal Armoury. Also, from a slightly different perspective, a number of castles, such as Threave (near Castle Douglas) have gun batteries instead of outer curtain walls. Levan [This message has been edited by Levan (edited 03-04-2000).] ------------------ Gordon.Frokel i am building a 3d animation of a castle for a college school project and i was trying to find a castle that has a medeval weapon room or something like that... i am going to make a interactive presintation with different rooms and it will tell about them and how life was like back then....i would just ilke to have a room where they kept the weapons... i hope there is such a thing as this and that i just have not seen it in the movies and just took it for fact...i also need good photos of this room....thanks in advanced.... Frokel also it would be nice to get some floor plans of the room thanks again Philip Davis The room where weapons are kept is called the armoury (or armory in american english). I can think off any medieval castles that had a specific armoury. However many castles had rooms for storing all sorts of things, including weapons and armour. I'm not really sure how things would be stored. I imagine bows and pikes were best stored where they didn't dry out and warp and iron weapons and armour were best kept as dry as possible to reduce rusting. However, in practice, I imagine things were stored where there was space. I very much doubt they were stored on nice wooden racks in special rooms. My guess is things were stored in barrels, propped up against the wall or dumped on the floor in cellars and corners of other rooms. Things like pikes, bows and, particularly, arrows could be stored in large quantities in case of need but really each man liable to service was meant to provide his own weapons and armour, which he would keep in his own home.
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http://www.castlesontheweb.com/members/philipdavis/index.html Levan Whilst not necessarily what one might call an armoury as such, Warwick Castle, Stirling Castle and the Tower of London have rooms with large collections of weapons and such like.
http://www.armouries.org.uk/
http://www.warwick-castle.co.uk/attraction/armoury.html
http://www.aboutscotland.co.uk/threave/castle.html wurdsmiff Inverary also has a large room decotated with arms of various sorts, as is the Great Hall of Edinburgh, but as Philip suggests this is a post mediaeval arrangement which developed once the arms themselves were no longer necessary or had been rendered obsolete. Usually examples of such decoration nowadays are used simply as a display, and to enhance the antique atmosphere of the castle.
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