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Histories of Northamptonshire

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  • Fossil screw pine - Pandanocarpum ooliticum (Carruthers) © NMAG

    Screw Pine Fossil

    This screw pine fossil is a rare type specimen. Parts of Jurassic Northamptonshire were submerged in a shallow warm sea and tropical plants thrived on the nearby land.

    168 million years ago Geologic to Prehistoric

  • Neolithic stone adze © NMAG

    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

  • Mesolithic flint blade or microlith © NMAG

    Mesolithic Flint Microlith

    Flint microlith - small stone tool made and used by nomadic hunters gatherers living in the Nene Valley during the Middle Stone Age.

    Mesolithic c. 9600 - 4000 BCE Geologic to Prehistoric

  • 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