Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration.

Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand.

Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble.

An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base.

Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.

Roughly D-shaped with broad cutting cleaver blade, much cortex remaining to both faces. 523 grams, 13cm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Drum-shaped in profile and slightly tapering, rounded percussion face. 407 grams, 78 mm



Ex Simmons Gallery, 1990s.

With inked accession numbers 'BBMI/23.9.83', 'BBM2/18.9.83', 'BBM2/22.4.86', BBM2/24.3.86'. 84 grams total, 5.1-12 cm



Found Lincolnshire, UK. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s. Ex amateur archaeologist. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.

Small kidney-shaped implement; with an old inked inscription: '2.SS.1284 A Twydall'. 26.6 grams, 58 mm



Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall.

Ellipsoid in plan with shallow socket to each face. 1.22 kg, 14.5 cm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

The opposed depressions imply that the creator had begun the process of making the vertical mounting socket.

Mixed group including some ancient scrapers and modern copies of axes and spearheads. 636 grams total, 2.5-26 cm



Ex London, UK, collection, 1970s onwards.

Comprising: a Grimes Graves, Norfolk, flint blade core; a black flint Mesolithic scraper found on the foreshore of River Orwell. near Orwell Bridge, Ipswich, Suffolk; a scraper from Yorkshire; a worked flint 'net weight'(?) from Holderness Coast, East Riding of Yorkshire; some with old inked notation. 403 grams total, 46-88 mm



Found Norfolk, Suffolk and Yorkshire, UK. Ex old British collection. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.

Narrow flaked pick with narrow tapering point and square-section body; with an old handwritten label to one face: 'LAND BOUW / 366 ) WERTUIG' / 'PIC'5 NST'. 248 grams, 15cm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Triangular in section with broad cutting edge, old collector's label 'Hache Taillée / Roche Gréseuse / L14cm. Néolithique / Calvados / 8000 à 3000 AJC / Homo Sapiens Sapiens' 297 grams, 13.5 cm



Found Calvados, France.

Lentoid in section with rounded butt. 166 grams, 10.5 cm



Found Watton, Norfolk, UK, by a farmer/landowner. From an old Norfolk, UK, collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Trapezoidal in section with slightly domed pounding face. 643 grams, 11.9 cm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Lentoid in section with irregular rounded edge and desert patina. 407 grams, 11.3 cm



Found Northern Sahara, North Africa. From the British art market in the 1970s-1980s. Acquired via inheritance, 1988. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.