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Histories of Northamptonshire

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  • Anglo-Saxon square-headed brooch with runic name inscribed on rear. © NMAG

    Wakerley brooch

    Excavated from a burial in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, this square headed brooch is unusual in being marked with a runic inscription on the back.

    Saxon 500 - 700 CE Roman and Early Medieval

  • Tooth from a woolly mammoth from gravel pits at Islip, Northamptonshire © NMAG

    Mammoth Tooth

    This tooth belonged to a woolly mammoth that roamed Northamptonshire during the Great Ice Age as recently as 11,700 years ago.

    Up to 11,700 years ago Geologic to Prehistoric

  • Reindeer antler or Lyngby axe from Earls Barton, Northamptonshire © The Trustees of the British Museum

    Palaeolithic Lyngby Axe

    The only example of a Lyngby axe found in Britain, this multi-purpose tool was used by people in the Upper Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age).

    Upper Palaeolithic c. 10,000 years ago Geologic to Prehistoric

  • Leg bone of a woolly rhinocerous from Wollaston, Northamptonshire. © NMAG

    Woolly Rhinoceros Bone

    This ulna (leg bone) comes from a woolly rhinocerus that lived in Northamptonshire during the Pliocene and Pleistocene ice Age.

    Between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago Geologic to Prehistoric