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'.

Spherical with traces of pecked manufacture technique and old inked inscription: '874'. 252 Grams, 7 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.

Group comprising a rounded handaxe with inked number 'AR2753' and indistinct reference above; dagger with inked reference '.9904.87'; with beautiful workmanship to each side and the tip. 276 grams total, 8.5-11.6 cm



Found Le Grand Pressigny, France. Acquired on the European art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.

Round-butted axehead with cortex to edge and both faces; marked 'BUIGNY'. 197 grams, 12 cm



Found Buigny, Northern France. Ex old French collection. Acquired prior to 2000. From a private Norfolk, UK, collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Substantial triangular-section handaxe with broad rounded butt. 433 grams, 13.9 cm



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.

Marked 'Poligny/2915', 'Lamonie.24 / Montgetell 3.7.68', 'La Vergne Larlux /24/JRV', 'Vengues/57'. 180 grams total, 67-88 mm



Found France. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s. From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023), formed in the 1980s-1990s. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.

Substantial cleaver with one worked edge; old collector's label 'From the River = Sandown, IOW / River Yare / Alveston - to Sandown'. 1.11 kg, 15.2 cm



Found by the River Yare, between Alvestone and Sandown, Isle of Wight, UK. Ex Victor Brox collection, UK, formed during the 1980s-1990s. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Comprising a core axe, two blade cores, a denticulate saw and an end scraper. 253 grams total, 32-90 mm



The core axe found Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, UK; and Culverwell, Portland Bill, Dorset, UK. Ex Hampshire, UK, collection, 1970s. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. Accompanied by a copy of a previous illustrated catalogue page.

lentoid in section with broad rounded butt and narrow tip, chipped; with inked inscription to narrow end: 'NEAR / MAXEY / CAMBS'. 588 grams, 17 cm.



Found near Maxey, Cambridgeshire, UK. 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.

Irregular-shaped; with an old inked inscription: '8.SM.1028.A Twydall'. 68 grams, 74 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.

Flaked blank flint of biconvex section with broad butt and rounded tip. 249 grams, 16 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.

Biconvex in section with narrow point and cortex to one face bearing old collector's inked legend 'SALISBURY'. 69 grams, 94 mm



Found fieldwalking near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, by Mr P.M. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Comprising ovate scrapers, flint points, burins and other types, some with cortex remaining. 613 grams total, 4.1-10.3 cm



From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.