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Iron Age Torc

Lead torc worn around the neck of an Iron Age woman. Found during excavation of a rare human Iron Age burial.

Iron Age 800 BCE - 43 AD Geologic to Prehistoric

Battle of Northampton Cannonball

This lead cannonball is proof of the earliest use of cannons on a battlefield in England - the Battle of Northampton 1460.

Medieval 1460 Medieval to Tudor

Advertising Boot

Large advertising boot for Cottons, a family run boot and shoe business located in Oundle from 1877 to the 21st century.

Victorian 1877 Modern

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

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

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

Civil War Buff Coat

English Civil War buff coat thought to have belonged to a Royalist soldier escapring the defeat at Naseby in 1645.

Stuart 1645 Stuart to Georgian

Drayman's Boots

Hardwearing boots worn by the "kings of the road", labourers transporting goods by horse-drawn wagon for the railway companies between the wars.

1915-52 Modern

Shoemaker's Bench

This shoemaker's bench is evidence of the shoemaking trade before mechanisation aand factory manufacture when solitary shoemakers mostly worked in small workshops in their home.

Victorian 1860 - 90 Modern