Displaying objects from Basement

Corn bin - Cupboard - 17th c
Seventeenth-century saddle backed oak ark bin

Prison door - Furniture - 16th c
Heavy prison type French door, three large bolts, one missing.

Barrels - Alcohol container - 20th c
A modern American Oak barrel, originally holding whisky from Riverstown Distillery.

Barrels - Alcohol container - 20th c
A modern American Oak barrel, originally holding whisky from Riverstown Distillery.

Barrels - Alcohol container - 20th c
A modern American Oak barrel, originally holding whisky from Riverstown Distillery.

Helmet - Armour - 17th c
17th century helmet with guarded visor and comb cresting, darkened and possibly from the North west European cuirassier armour around 1600s. Helmet possibly originated from thirty years war and is a close helmet with wide vertical bars. Blackened or blued to defend against rusting.

Backplate - Armour - 17th c
1600s backplate, Spanish in origin.

Greaves - Armour - 17th c
1600s, darkened greaves or thigh guards, possibly from the North west European cuirassier armour around 1600s.

Elbow & vambrace - Armour - 17th c
Vambrace Armour, armour of the elbow and arm. This is possible North-western European armour dating from the seventeenth-century. It is hinged to facilitate movement of the upper limbs which indicates its functional nature.

Cuirass - Armour - 16th c
This cuirass is possibly sixteenth-century in origin. It is the breastplate with waisted pleats attached.

Gorget & cauldron - Armour - 16th c
This sixteenth century gorged or collar provided protection for the neck. The additional paudron provided shoulder protection.

Greaves - Armour - 16th c
1500s, darkened greaves or thigh guards, possibly from the North west European cuirassier armour around 1600s.

Comb morion type helmet - Armour - 17th c
Comb-Morion Helmet or light helmet is possibly named for the Spanish morion anglicised from the Spanish word for helmet. They were in use from the 1530s through to the early seventeenth-century. They were commonly used by “Pike men” who would also often wear a cuirass, which was a chest or back plate.

Horse bits - Animal accessory - 17th c
Three large 17th Century Steel Horse Bits. As these bits are large, they were possibly used to control the Belgian heavy horse, which were favoured warhorses from the thirteenth-century onwards. They would commonly be referred to as part of horse tack.

Panelled partition - Panel - 17th c
English Oak Panelling, popular in the sixteenth-century to partition rooms in castles and early mansion houses

Large strong box - Furniture - 16th c
A Large Strong Box or document chest with lifting handles at each end and three locks. It was used for valuables, archives and for collecting money. The lid contains a very elaborate lock extending over the whole interior. 16th century.

An early 17th century Oak Cupboard - Cupboard - 17th c
An early 17th century Oak ecclesiastical coffer with carved, panelled front decorated with geometric inlays of holly and bog oak. It was possibly used to house the altar plate and parish archives. The central door inscribed above with the name Robinson, dated 1617.

Elm refectory table - Furniture - 16th c
A long elm Refectory table having a single elm plank top, supported by two cruciform pedestals as tables were not fixtures in the modern sense and could be dismantled quite easily. This is 17th century in origin.

Barrels - Alcohol container - 20th c
Modern Whisky barrels from Cooley's distilleries established 1989