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'.

Comprising glazed, unglazed, decorated and polychrome fragments mainly from tiles and vessels, together with a vessel fragment featuring a lion modelled in relief. 11 kg total, 4-22 cm



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

Including a winder key, belt buckles, Jew's harp and other items. 133 grams total, 19-53 mm



Private collection, Buckinghamshire, UK; formed in the 1980s. Property of a Scottish collector, acquired in 2013.

Three buckles from this set can be dated to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries A.D. Very often the pin of these buckles was made of brass, and some were used for the sword's or sabre's baldric, positioned across the right shoulder of the body.

Including one a truncated cone with vertical ribbing, a square-section wedge with reserved 'T' to underside, and other types; two with typed collector's note. 976 grams total, 43-69 mm



Ex Simmons Gallery, 1990s. Accompanied by two typed information slips.

Comprising three leather shoe soles with perforations for attachment of the shoe uppers. 256 grams total, 28.5 x 20.5 cm



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

The collectioncomprises a 'family' group: sole of adult male shoe, of adult female shoe and a child's shoe. The Thames is a prolific place for such kind of finds: Tudor soles, large men’s and female soles, petite lady’s soles and the soles from children's shoes. Some of them have been found with an ‘X’ cut into them and several still have the outline of the original owner’s toes.

Including annular, beehive and other types with irregular dimples. 65 grams total, 12-25 mm



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

In England, thimbles first occurred around 1300, probably under the influence of the Hispano-Moresque examples. However, it wasn't until around 1350 that thimbles became objects of everyday use in England.

Including discoid tokens with reserved legends, oblate spindle whorls, cuboid weights and other items. 824 grams total, 20-34 mm



Found on various UK sites since 1974. Property of an Essex collector.

Including beehive, bell-shaped and other types; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 97 grams total, 12-27 mm



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

Comprising: heater shield pendant with reserved saltire; heater shield stud with reserved lion rampant; teardrop shield pendant with reserved lion rampant; lozenge pendant with radiating knops, central circular recess with enamel fill and reserved cinquefoil; T-shaped strap with attachment holes. 28 grams total, 16-60 mm



Found UK. From the collection of a Wiltshire, UK, gentleman, 1990s.

Carved in the half-round with head tilted, crown of thorns to the brow and loincloth gathered at the hip; feet crossed and pierced for mounting; hatching to the knees and beard; mounted on a wooden display stand. 92 grams total, 14 cm including stand



From the private collection of the late Victor Brox.

Circular pendant with eight lobes representing scallop shells, central roundel in red enamel, cross surrounded by a garland of daisies in blue enamel; lozenge-shaped pendant showing possibly a bird in flight. 29.9 grams total, 32-55 mm



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

The earliest known examples of heraldic pendants appeared in 12th century A.D., when the heraldry became popular among the western medieval knights, and their use as horse harness developed further in 13th-15th centuries A.D.

The shoulders fashioned as beast-heads, flared disc bezel with border and enigmatic 'IOLE' inscription surmounted by a six-pointed star. 5.70 grams, 24.13 mm overall, 17.40 mm internal diameter (approximate size British N 1/2, USA 6 3/4, Europe 14.35, Japan 13)



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Mixed lead group comprising: an ellipsoid plano-convex leatherworker's palm-guard; a large discoid weight with concentric rings; a discoid casting from a badge; a strap slider; a foliage pane; a scallop-shaped token. 995 grams total, 12-83 mm



Found whilst searching in Devon and Somerset, UK.