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Neolithic Adze

With the start of Neolithic farming came new stone tools. This adze is of a type and stone more commonly found in Denmark.

Neolithic 4,100 - 2,500 BCE Geologic to Prehistoric

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

West Haddon Enclosure Award

Parchment copy of the West Haddon Enclosure Award of 1765. It details the allocation of land to each landowner in lieu of their previous holdings.

Georgian 1765 Stuart to Georgian

Iron Age Rotary Quern

Rotary quern made from millstone grit used to grind cereals into flour. More than 100 were found at the Iron Age hillfort at Hunsbury Hill.

Iron Age c. 200 BCE Geologic to Prehistoric

Thorpe (Neolithic) Axe

The Thorpe axe, named after the finder of the Axe in the inter-war years, is a large neolithic flint axe found in Higham Ferrers.

Neolithic 4,100 - 2,500 BCE Geologic to Prehistoric