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'.

The penannular body formed with graduated biconical bulbs, recurved tapering terminals. 482 grams, 16 cm wide



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

Modelled standing nude with exaggerated discoid face, hands on the hips; arms partly absent. 7.19 grams, 32 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.

Iron shank with applied bronze collar and bulb, ribbed hoop finial. 33 grams, 76 mm



From a North Yorkshire, UK, private collection. Acquired from Adam Partridge Auctioneers, Macclesfield, UK. Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.

Graduated round-section shank with hook finials. 52 grams, 14.2 cm



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

Lozengiform in section with each tapering end formed into a wound sliding loop for adjustment. 12 grams, 78 mm



American private collection, New York, 1990s.

D-section bar with fan-shaped hatched flanges at the centre flanking the socket; six ribbed knops to the outer face, beast-head finials; one attachment pin to the underside. 54 grams, 15.5 cm



From a North Yorkshire, UK, private collection. Acquired from Adam Partridge Auctioneers, Macclesfield, UK. Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.

Comprising a narrow shank expanding to broad rectangular plaques, each with hatched borders and incised detailing. 16.8 grams, 60 mm



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

With broad rectangular headplate and slender bow and foot. 13.5 grams, 61 mm



Found Suffolk, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.

Comprising thick twisted rods, and flattened crescent plate finials with punched pellet detailing 42.1 grams, 66 mm



Private collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1975-late 1990s.

Including three biconvex spindle whorls with low-relief detailing, a bronze hooked tag and other items; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 114 grams total, 25-32 mm



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

Sheet gold sleeve and wire dangle, crystal lobed bead mounted in the socket. 0.83 grams, 23 mm



Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970-2000s.

This amulet was believed to offer protection against 'Elfshot'. The attack of elves was believed responsible for mysterious suffering in men and livestock: sudden shooting pains localised to a particular area of the body, such as in rheumatism, arthritis or muscle stitches or cramps. Elves were thought to shoot darts or arrows where such pains had no obvious external cause. Belief in elfshot persisted into the 20th century in rural areas, and as proof country folk would sometimes find small arrowheads (the remains of Neolithic or Mesolithic flints, or naturally-occurring spear-shaped stones) that were believed to be the magical weapons that caused the afflictions. Belief in elfshot began in the Pagan Germanic period.

Penannular bracelet comprising thick twisted rods, flattened pear-shaped loop finials. 48.4 grams, 62 mm



Private collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1975-late 1990s.