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Description: | 8,000 pieces of armour, including 4 personal armours of Henry VIII, armour from the royal workshops at Greenwich, Stuart royal armours, medieval armour of the Knights of St John at Rhodes and munition armour of the 16th and 17th century;
600 pieces of equestrian equipment, including horse armours of Henry VIII;
4,200 European staff weapons, including decorated pieces from the arsenal of Henry VIII, pikes and halberds of the 16th and 17th centuries and pattern issue spontoons and boarding pikes and lances of the 18th and 19th centuries;
7,500 European swords, including some royal examples;
6,300 daggers and bayonets, including medieval daggers from London and pattern issue bayonets of the 18th and 19th centuries ;
500 pieces of archery equipment, including longbows excavated from the Mary Rose;
12,000 firearms and firearms accessories, including medieval handguns, matchlocks of the 16th and 17th century, wheellocks, early flintlocks of the 17th century, military issue weapons of the 18th and 19th century, sporting guns and military weapons of the 20th century;
3,000 pieces of firearms ammunition;
50 instruments of torture and punishment, including a block and axe
900 pieces of artillery, including the Turkish ÃDardanelles gunÃ' of 1464 and medieval guns;
3,300 pieces of artillery ammunition and accessories;
85 fakes and forgeries;
1,800 pieces of oriental arms and armour, including central Asian, Islamic, African, Indian, Chinese, south east Asian and Japanese material. | Subjects: | Arms & armour | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Armouries Drive
Leeds,
LS10 1LT | FAX: | 0113 220 1964 | Telephone: | 0113 220 1900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1313 | Go to resource |
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