WORD SEARCH K T E K S U M B T A X P A N G O L I N R KGT I W R LNE M E CDG Z I SNM O S C J H D E RPA U H U N T I N G K N R EXPLORER I JVA M T TKR I TRAIL E GHI L A B A U E KEY STAGE 3 L R O Y A L W K O S Self-Guided Visit D V S W O R D L T G Teacher’s Only w w w w w w . r ROYAL PANGOLIN r o o y ARMOURIES SHIELD y a a l l a ORIENTAL KNIGHT a r r m TOURNAMENT MUSKET m o o u u r HUNTING LANCE r i i e e s WAR SWORD s . o o r r g g This trail takes in four of the main museum galleries – War and © Royal Armouries Tournament on Floors 2 & 3 plus Oriental and Hunting on Floors 4 & 5. WAR GALLERY / FLOOR 2 WAR GALLERY TREASURE HUNT All these objects can be found in the English Civil War EARLY WAR section of the War Gallery on Floor 2 . Q: Find the Corinthian helm. This helmet is the oldest item in the museum. What is it made out of? A: Bronze Q: What is it? A: Cavalry officer’s buff coat Q: What material replaced bronze for armour and weapons? Q: What is it made of? A: Leather A: Iron and steel Q: What is it? A: Cuirassier armour AGINCOURT shoulder plate Q: Find the display on the battle of Agincourt. Using the model to help, explain Q: Which part of the body A: Shoulder why you think the English won the battle? would it protect? A: Stakes in the ground protecting men, u-shape defence, using tree line to good effect, French packed to close together. Q: What is it? A: Flintlock mechanism from a flintlock pistol Q: Who would have used it? A: Cavalier BATTLE OF PAVIA Q: Find the diorama depicting a moment from the battle of Pavia. Name 4 weapons you can see? Q: What is it? A: Sword pommel A: Pikes / Muskets (guns) / Lance / Sword Q: What type is it? A: Rapier Q: Which weapons in the Pavia display put an end to the age of the knight? Why? A: Musket: armour piercing / Pike: keeps knights at a distance Q: What is it? A: Armoured tassets FIRST WORLD WAR / FLOOR 3 Q: Who would have worn this? A: Pikeman Q: Who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand? A: Gavrilo Princip Q: Which type of weapon was used in the assassination? Q: What is it? A: Back of a lobster pot or A: Centrefire self-loading pistol: FN Browning Model 1910 three-bar pot helmet Q: What is it used for? A: Protecting the head 1 © Royal Armouries © Royal Armouries 2 TOURNAMENT GALLERY / FLOOR 2 ARMOUR Q: Find the children’s armour. At what age would a child begin training This is a complete armour for the foot combat. to be a knight? Helmet A: 7 Pauldron Visor Bevor Q: In which year did the Field of Cloth of Gold take place? Gorget A: 1520 Vambrace Breastplate Q: Find the armour of Robert Dudley. Draw his symbol in the box below. Couter Codpiece Gauntlet Tasset Cuisse Poleyn Greave Sabaton Q: What did a COUTER protect? Q: What is hand protection called? Q: The famous Horned Helmet is decorated in a grotesque (outrageous and A: Elbow A: Gauntlet strange) style. What features can you spot that reflect this? A: Spectacles, horns, unshaven stubble, drop of snot under the nose, crow’s feet on the eyes. Q: What is the groin defence called? Q: Where would you wear a greave? A: Codpiece A: Lower leg Q: Who gifted the Horned Helmet to Henry VIII? Q: Where are SABATONS worn? Q: What protected your chin? A: Emperor Maximillian A: Feet A: Bevor 3 © Royal Armouries © Royal Armouries 4 ORIENTAL GALLERY / FLOOR 4 WEAPON ANAGRAMS INDIA All the anagrams below are types of medieval arms and armour. Q: The elephant armour has two holes on the headpiece above the animal’s Unjumble the letters to make the correct word. skull, what are they for? A: Steering the elephant ACME WORDS SOCSWROB CLEAN A: MACE A: SWORD A: CROSSBOW A: LANCE Q: Behind the elephant there is an armour made of animal scales, which animal did the scales come from? DISHEL LIMA LEMETH A: Pangolin A: SHIELD A: MAIL A: HELMET Q: Who was the armour made for? A: George III HUNTING GALLERY / FLOOR 4 Q: Sketch one of the decorative panels from the elephant armour Q: Find the Tula Garniture in the centre of the gallery. To whom did it belong? A: Elizabeth Petrovna Q: What is a stalking horse? JAPAN A: A medieval squire dressed up in a horse costume for camouflage Q: In the Japanese area of the gallery there is a famous armour that was gifted to a king of England. Which one? A: James I Q: What is the name given to a Japanese spear? A: Yari 5 © Royal Armouries © Royal Armouries 6.