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Sir Christopher Hatton

Oil on wood panel painting of Sir Christopher Hatton, courtier to Queen Elizabeth I.

Tudor 1581 Medieval to Tudor

Mackintosh Chair

This chair is one of four made for Wenman Bassett-Lowke and his house at 78 Derngate, whose decoration was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

1917 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

School Wall Clock

Wall clock from Alfred Street School, stopped at 10.12am on the morning of a bombing raid which killed a number of children in the school.

1940 Modern

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

Scout Trek Cart

Scout Trek Cart used by the 1st Kettering Scout Group for expeditions and camps, possibly since the troop's formation in 1909.

1909 - 1940 Modern

Irchester Bowls

A collection of bronze vessels, known as the Irchester bowls, found in 1874 at the site of Irchester Roman town, near Wellingborough.

Roman 350 - 399 CE Roman and Early Medieval

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

Frank Nurser Canal Stool

Painted stool in Castles and Roses folkart style, used to decorate everyday items used by bargees, people who lived and worked on Northamptonshire's canal network.

Georgian 1815 Stuart to Georgian

Northamptonshire Yeomanry Horse Model

Carved and painted wooden model of a white horse, the regimental badge of Northamptonshire Yeomanry since 1794.

Georgian 1794 Stuart to Georgian

Woodville Tiles

Medieval floor tiles decorated with the crests of the the Woodvilles and House of York. Laid as part of the floor at the Hermitage in Grafton Regis.

Medieval 1464 - 1499 Medieval to Tudor

Woolly Rhinoceros Bone

This ulna (leg bone) comes from a woolly rhinocerus that lived in Northamptonshire during the Pliocene and Pleistocene ice Age.

Between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago Geologic to Prehistoric

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

William Knibb's Box

Wooden box presented to William Knibb (1803 - 1845), Baptist minister and abolition campaigner.

Victorian 1838 Modern

Mammoth Tooth

This tooth belonged to a woolly mammoth that roamed Northamptonshire during the Great Ice Age as recently as 11,700 years ago.

Up to 11,700 years ago Geologic to Prehistoric