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Histories of Northamptonshire

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  • pieces of decorative marble from Piddington Roman villa © UNAS

    Mediterranean marble used as decorative inlays on luxurious Roman furniture

    These marble pieces were excavated at the Roman villa at Piddington, from a third or fourth century rubbish heap.

    3rd century Roman and Early Medieval

  • Roman mosaic fragment

    Roman Mosaic Floor Fragment

    This fragment of Roman mosaic flooring is on display in Daventry Museum. It is part of a larger decorative floor, discovered in 1823 on Borough Hill, Daventry by historian George Baker, with a full excavation carried out in 1852 by Beriah Botfield, MP.

    Early Roman Roman and Early Medieval

  • Bronze Age decorated gold strip or ribbon © NMAG

    Early Bronze Age Ribbon

    A short piece of decorated gold strip or ribbon dating to the Bronze Age.

    Early Bronze Age Geologic to Prehistoric

  • Painted canal stool in castles and roses style by Frank Nurser © NMAG

    Frank Nurser Canal Stool

    Painted stool in Castles and Roses folkart style, used to decorate everyday items used by bargees, people who lived and worked on Northamptonshire's canal network.

    Georgian 1815 Stuart to Georgian

  • Wood and woven rush seat designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh © NMAG

    Mackintosh Chair

    This chair is one of four made for Wenman Bassett-Lowke and his house at 78 Derngate, whose decoration was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

    1917 Modern

  • Everard Bouverie cavalry sword © Delapre Abbey

    Everard Bouverie's Waterloo Sword

    A cavalry officer’s heavy sword carried in the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. It is 102cm long, with a matching scabbard. It is made from metal with decoration on the blade called blue and gilt, which has now faded.

    1812 Stuart to Georgian

  • Leather drinking flask or costrel © NMAG

    Costrel

    Medieval leather flask (costrel) used for water or other drinks. Found in the Market Square, this example is embossed with a sword motif.

    Medieval 1425 - 1475 Medieval to Tudor

  • Large copper ball added to the cast iron Victorian Market Square fountain in Northampton in 1954. © NMAG

    Fountain Ball

    This copper ball was added in the 1950s to the Victorian ornate cast iron fountain installed in the Market Square, Northampton.

    Victorian 1863 Modern

  • Bronze, enamelled Roman vanity set hung from a chatelaine © NMAG

    Roman Chatelaine

    This astonishingly well preserved example of a chatelaine (collection of personal grooming objects), is a high-status object made to be seen as much as used.

    Roman - first century CE Roman and Early Medieval

  • 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