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  • 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

  • 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

  • Roman lucet from Orton Waterville (formerly part of Northamptonshire and Soke of Peterborough) © 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

  • Iron Age reaping hook - iron blade with bone handle © NMAG

    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

  • Discarded (partially worked)  antler chess pieces © NMAG

    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

  • Fossil brachiopod Kallirhynchia sharpi. © NMAG

    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

  • Wooden model of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry badge depicting a white horse. © NMAG

    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