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'.

Discoid and triangular hooked tags with attachment points; many of these are published in the Detector Finds book series and Buttons & Fasteners 500 BC-AD 1840. 9.42 grams total, 12-25 mm



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

Rectangular with scooped edges and stepped profile, incised hatching and ring-and-dot ornament. 8.76 grams, 50 mm



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

Rectangular- and flat-section bar sections with test nicks and burred edges. 50.3 grams total, 26-50 mm



Ex Spink and Sons, London, UK. Ex Nigel Mills, London, UK, 2014.

With hatched panels on the shank developing to flared finials with incised herringbone detailing. 15.7 grams, 65 mm



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

Two-edged blade with low-relief hatched zoomorphic ornament. 27 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.

Comprising: a fusiform bead with ribbed outer surface; roughly cut segment of a silver ingot often called 'hack silver'. 9.2 grams total, 16-17 mm



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

With raised flange rim, tondo with raised border and six spirals with connecting tendrils around a central stud; pin-lug and catch to reverse. 12.7 grams, 35 mm



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

The majority of these Saxon saucer brooches have a design based on five spirals, although some with six are known.

C-shaped in section with transverse hatching and pointillé ornament, triangular spike to centre, pin-lug offset to one edge. 7 grams, 49 mm



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

Including triangular and lobed types. 5.06 grams total, 17-34 mm



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

With trefoil head and leaf-shaped foot, ring--and-dot ornament. 12 grams, 61 mm



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

A bronze cruciform brooch formed of a raised rectangular headplate with rectangular lateral wings surmounted by domed knop with ribbed collar; D-section bow with transverse ribbing; ribbed footplate extending to an animal-head terminal with prominent eyes and rounded nostrils; catchplate to the reverse with ferrous remains. 26 grams, 83 mm



Found UK. From an old English collection; acquired on the UK art market. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.

Tongue-shaped with recessed attachment bar at top and holes for two studs; the field with low-relief Borre Style ornament. 12.14 grams, 38 mm



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