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Insulator Egg

Ceramic insulator egg used to hold together the aerials transmiting shortwave radio from the BBC radio masts at Borough Hill in Daventry.

1932 Modern

Zeppelin Bomb

First World War incendiary bomb, dopped from a German military airship or Zeppelin as part of bombing raids on Britain.

1917 Modern

Military Cross

First World War Military Cross awarded to Lieutenant OK Parker for gallentry during what is often called the blackest day in the Northamptonshire Regiment's history.

1915 Modern

Kettering Town Football Club Shirt

Kettering Town Football Club was the first Bristish club to wear shirts advertising their sponsors, sparking a revolution in football marketing.

1976 Modern

Dr Waddy's Sterilising Drum

Sterilising drum belonging to Dr Francis Fisher Waddy, first anaesthetist at Northampton General Hospital. The drum contained small items of anaaesthetic equipment during their sterilisation.

1930 - 1959 Modern

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

Dinosaur Footprint

This 166-million-year-old dinosaur footprint cast, found in Irchester, is Northamptonshire’s first dinosaur evidence, likely made by a Megalosaurus

166 million years ago Geologic to Prehistoric

Treaty of Edinburgh - Northampton

In 1328, England's parliament met at Northampton Castle; where they agreed this peace treaty officially marking the end of the First War of Scottish Independence.

Medieval 1328 Medieval to Tudor