Armoury in action

From shooting arrows and brandishing swords, to designing muskets and firing cannon, come and experience a thousand years of history hands on. See if you can create a tower which will last as long as the White Tower.

Highlights

• An original arrow head broken off when its shaft was used to loosen the draw bar to the main southern door in the White Tower and not found for five or six hundred years until 1997.
• Fire–damaged pistols, fused together by the heat of the Grand Storehouse fire of 1841.
• See a mangled breastplate left by the explosive power of a cannonball.