Explore Littlecote House (without Flash)

This module was designed for Key Stage 3 study of the English Civil Wars through exploration of Littlecote House and its arms and armour.

In this section you will be able to view collection objects such as portraits, and landscape paintings, as well as photographs to aid study of the English Civil Wars.

If you have Adobe Flash® installed on your computer, click here to use our Flash based interactive

Scary Horned Helmet

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Is newer better?

The last cast-iron British smoothbore cannon, the 68 pounder, was 8 inches (203 mm), the same calibre as the heaviest guns of King Henry VIII three hundred years earlier. Their performance was probably not very different either!

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