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'.

Of irregular shape, some cortex showing to the upper face; with an old inked inscription: '2.SS 1279.C Twydall'. 42 grams, 57 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.

Mixed group comprising several flint scrapers, a large reproduction lanceolate lentoid-section spearhead with lateral barbs to the tang, and other reproductions. 626 grams total, 3.4-25.5 cm



Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Including miniature pointed tools, discoid scrapers and other tools, mounted on stands. 127 grams total, 16-60 mm



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 of three flints, one ovate with rounded edge and two with angled faces, one a reworked fragment; old labels '119' and '102' attached; old collector's label identifying the findspot as Farlington Marshes, Hampshire UK. 106 grams total, 50-58 mm



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

Modelled in the round with steatopygous profile. 46 grams, 60 mm



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.

Plano-convex in section with tapering body and radiating limbs. 756 grams, 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 sculptures represent farm animals in the Neolithic period. Animal figurines seem to be a recurrent feature in the earlier Neolithic settlements, in the Balkans and in the Levant. It is significant that in the Neolithic Mediterranean, the animals depicted seem to be domesticated, thus suggesting that its reference points were within the confines of the community.

Small and triangular in plan with narrow butt, some cortex remaining; old inked legend 'SALISBURY' to one end. 66 grams, 98 mm



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

Knapped on all faces; with an old inked inscription: '2. PB.12.40.C. Twydall'. 120 grams, 76 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.

Small triangular-shaped implement; with an old worn inked inscription. 73 grams, 76 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.

Comprising: one with broad butt and squared cutting edge; one similar with rounded edge. 1.1 kg total, 12.8-14.2 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.

A mixed group of twenty-one worked blades and other flint tools. 390 grams total, 22-55 mm



Found Portland Bill, Dorset, UK, 1970s. Ex Hampshire, UK, collection. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.

Mesolithic men made use of a vast range of materials and mass-production techniques to make the special tools they needed. One of the oldest examples of a 'factory' intended for large-scale production was discovered by Grahame Clark, in the underground of a reclaimed field at Star Carr, Yorkshire.

Of irregular shape with some cortex showing; with an old inked inscription: '1539 Twydall'. 494 grams, 12.4 cm



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.