Displaying objects from Captain's Quarters

Nature Painting - Painting - 17th c
Painting depicting a nature scene of dogs attacking a bear.

Fire grate - Fire accessory - 20th c
Iron grate

Helmet - Armour - 17th c
The skull of a helmet which was worn underneath the exterior helmet in order to make it more comfortable for the owner.

Armour backplate - Armour - 17th c
Backplate from a pikeman's harness, Cromwellian and used extensively in the English Civil Wars. Pikemen carried sixteen foot pikes and were used defend infantry against enemy cavalry.

Carved Oak Bed - Furniture - 16th c
A late 16th/early 17th century Carved Oak Bed with elaborately carved bulbous posts and carved headboard. The tester of later date, carved with hearts and arrows. Such beds reflect the newly arrived Flemish influence in England in the sixteenth-century.

Needlework bedcover - Furniture accessory - 17th c
Needlepoint bed cover, flowers and leaves, coloured green

Cromwellian Helmet - Armour - 17th c
A Lobster tailed helmet which was also worn with face guards in the English civil wars (1642-1651). The long tail used to protect the neck and trademark peak make the helmet an artefact of this period. These helmets were probably mass produced and are simpler and less ornate in style.

Steel Bow - Armour - 17th c
Light weapon, possibly a piece from an operational crossbow.

Leg Iron - Armour - 17th c
An Iron Stock for confinement of the legs. Punishment device commonly used until the eighteenth-century

Iron spear head - Weapon - 17th c
Spear head were often used on the end of pikes and were used extensively throughout Europe until the eighteenth-century. They were commonly referred to as Lancer in the Napoleonic Wars.

Iron spear head - Weapon - 17th c
Spear head were often used on the end of pikes and were used extensively throughout Europe until the eighteenth-century. They were commonly referred to as Lancer in the Napoleonic Wars.

Iron spear head - Weapon - 17th c
Spear head were often used on the end of pikes and were used extensively throughout Europe until the eighteenth-century. They were commonly referred to as Lancer in the Napoleonic Wars.

Iron spear head - Weapon - 17th c
Spear head were often used on the end of pikes and were used extensively throughout Europe until the eighteenth-century. They were commonly referred to as Lancer in the Napoleonic Wars.

Spear - Weapon - 17th c
Spear head were often used on the end of pikes and were used extensively throughout Europe until the eighteenth-century. They were commonly referred to as Lancer in the Napoleonic Wars.

Gorget Armour neckpiece - Armour - 16th c
The gorget or neckpiece provided protection from the neck, this was later replaced by the tail on helmets which developed in the seventeenth century

Vambrace armour piece - Armour - 16th 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.

Vambrace armour piece - Armour - 16th 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.

Chain mail - Armour - 15th c
Chain mail was linked iron ringed vests worn under armour and originated from earlier Norman times. It was superceded by iron and steel plate in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century.

Sword - Weapon - 17th c
Sword with a guarded handle which like a cross piece protected the hand of the user.

Cuisses - Armour - 17th c
Thigh pieces which were part of Iron and steel plate armour.

Boots - Clothing - 17th c
Boots were worn in early plate and steel armour and leather boots superceded them by Cromwellian times.

Cromwellian breastplate - Armour - 17th c
Cromwellian breastplate, this piece is possibly New Model Army armour and was probably used by cavalry as the waist is larger than that used by infantry. Cromwell’s cavalry were known as ‘Ironsides’ from this type of distinctive armour. However due to the expensiveness of such armour, the cuirass (chest plate) of this period cost 13 shilling. Though mass produced during this period, cavalry often sufficed with just a helmet.

Pauldron or shoulder armour - Armour - 17th c
This protected the shoulders from heavy blows and was part of plate armour.

Gauntlet - Armour - 17th c
Iron and metal glove which protected the hands from injury, often shown in paintings and coming to mean a challenge when throwing down the gauntlet.

Gauntlet - Armour - 17th c
Iron and metal glove which protected the hands from injury, often shown in paintings and coming to mean a challenge when throwing down the gauntlet.

Large key - Lock and Key - 17th c
Large pre-industrial key with frilled ornate design

Large Key - Lock and Key - 17th c
Large pre-industrial key with frilled ornate design

Gothic lock - Lock and Key - 16th c
A Gothic pierced Iron lock Plate and key. Large pre-industrial security fastening obvious due to size of key hole.16th Century.

Corn bin - Furniture - 16th c
A 16th century Ark, or Corn Bin, with saddle shaped domed top, and linenfold panels to the front and sides in oak