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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
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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
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© Peterborough Museum
Roman Lucet
A lucet was used to make braids and cords. Found at a Roman military site this is the earliest example found in Britain or Europe.
Roman 45 - 65 CE Roman and Early Medieval
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Iron Age Reaping Hook
A well preserved reaping hook, on one hand an everyday farming implement, on the other a symbol of prehistoric farming.
Iron Age 300-150 BCE Geologic to Prehistoric
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Bishop and Queen Chess Pieces
These two discarded 12th century antler chess pieces were made in a workshop and are evidence of Northampton as a bustling medieval centre.
Norman 1100 - 1199 Medieval to Tudor
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Jurassic Fossil Kallirhynchia sharpi
168 million years ago, Northamptonshire lay beneath a warm sea teeming with marine life, including this fossil brachiopod Kallirhynchia sharpi.
168 million years ago Geologic to Prehistoric
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Northamptonshire Yeomanry Horse Model
Carved and painted wooden model of a white horse, the regimental badge of Northamptonshire Yeomanry since 1794.
Georgian 1794 Stuart to Georgian