Workshop with Oven (?)

This is a large building without a basement. The ground floor, accessible by a few steps from the secondary entrance to the castle, was originally entirely paved with limestone blocks. This equipment is not systematic in the different rooms unearthed at Poilvache and it may have been made necessary by the presence of an oven located in the southwest corner of the room and whose function n has been determined so far. It is not impossible that this oven has a connection with the monetary workshop which was created in Poilvache in 1298.

It may have been used more commonly by a blacksmith to make the metal parts necessary for daily life in the fortress (nails, locks, keys, door fittings, horseshoes, etc.). The activity of this oven in any case required large quantities of water, judging from the drain hole in the south-east corner of the room. This device connects to a conduit passing under the paving stones of the scroll path and crossing the south curtain wall.

At the foot of the north wall of the room, stone balls used as projectiles for the artillery (bombards) with which the fortress was equipped were discovered.