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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

Wootton Coin Hoard

Containing over 1900 coins this Roman hoard was found in Wootton Fields. They were buried during the later Roman period in a black pot.

Roman 325 CE Roman and Early Medieval

Naseby Cannonball

Iron cannon ball fired at the Battle of Naseby in 1645, the deciding battle of the First English Civil war.

Stuart 1645 Stuart to Georgian

Kinky Boots

Boots made for the film Kinky Boots - telling the story of entrepeneurialism in the county's shoe manufacturing industry in the late 1990s.

2005 Modern

Hannah Sparke Miniature

Miniature painting of Hannah Sparke, heroine of the Great Fire of Wellingborough in 1738.

Georgian 1738 Stuart to Georgian

King Henry VI Gold Figurine

Gold figurine depicting Henry VI as a saint which was possibly originally fixed to a larger vpprestigious object such as a crown.

Medieval 1485 - 1538 Medieval to Tudor

Torah Scroll

Torah scroll smuggled out of Austria following the events of the Kristallnacht in 1938. It is now on loan to the Northampton Hebrew Congregation.

1939 Modern

Oak Apple Day Wreath

Every year on May 29th, a wreath of oak Leaves is hung upon the statue of Charles II, All Saints Church, Northampton.

Stuart 1675 Stuart to Georgian