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'.

One hollow-formed with ellipsoid bezel, one with hexagonal rosette bezel, one with scooped shoulders and disc bezel with scroll motifs, possibly Ottoman or Eastern Mediterranean. 10.3 grams total, 19-21 mm



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

Comprising examples of various types, including some retaining the rowel, buckle and other fastening elements. 257 grams total, 12.1-14.5 cm



Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.

Comprising shoes of various sizes, types and dates and including examples retaining nails. 8.35 kg total, 11-14 cm



Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.

Late medieval and Renaissance horseshoes had an angular inner profile. These horse shoes were broadly C-shaped and rectangular in section.

Including double-loop, D-shaped, rectangular and other types; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 332 grams total, 2.6-11.5 cm



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

The collection is comprising spectable buckles (1350-1720 A.D.), reectangular and trapezoidal buckles (1350-1700 A.D.), buckles with a central pin bar and asymmetrical loops (1400-1500 A.D.), two piece buckles (1660-1800). The majority of buckles used on personal dress were made from non-ferrous metal, like copper-alloy.

Including shoe buckles, D-frame and double-frame types; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 565 grams total, 17-81 mm



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

Mixed group of buckles and buckle loops, some with mounting tags. 129 grams total, 13-44 mm



Found near York, UK.

The lock heater-shaped in section with separate sliding mechanism, key with voided shank. 325 grams total, 4.9-10.6 cm



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

Octagonal in section with pierced discoid bow and knop finial; openwork cross with pellets in the spandrels, rectangular bolster. 15.7 grams, 11.1 cm



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Including mainly double-loop and D-framed types; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 506 grams total, 17-77 mm



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

Openwork pendant of an advancing horse on a curved baseline with loop to the shoulder. 4.68 grams, 31 mm



From an old English collection, 1990s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Comprising ten anti-cavalry caltrops, hand-forged with square-section spikes. 396 grams total, 71-91 mm



From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.

Caltrops were scattered on battlefields in an effort to stop or slow advancing enemy cavalry or foot soldiers; regardless of how a caltrop lands, one spike is always facing upwards.

Comprising a slender shank and stepped shoulders, rectangular bezel with incised zoomorphic motif. 2.65 grams, 22.80 mm overall, 19.49 mm internal diameter (approximate size British S 1/2, USA 9 1/4, Europe 20.63, Japan 19)



Private collection formed since the 1940s. UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

The motif may be intended for the agnus dei.