Timeline Auction - Antiquities, Natural History and Coins

Late Period, 664-332 BC. A blue glazed composition plaque with seated falcon-headed deity, most likely Ra with a sun-disc, holding Maat feather; ...

Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BC. A bone plaque amulet depicting the god Thoth with human body and ibis head with tripartite wig crowned with lunar cr...

Neolithic, 4th-3rd millennium BC. A large axe of slightly asymmetric form, of lentoid section tapering from the rounded butt, showing signs of us...

Late 14th century AD. A terracotta bowl on three slender legs, gusseted in profile with everted rim, two loops handles to the sides; each leg holl...

6th century AD. A gilt-bronze square-headed brooch with applied silver plaques comprising rectangular head-plate, shallow bow, pelta-shaped footp...

7th-8th century AD. A silver buckle comprising: a flat-section loop with dragon-head terminals; a curved tongue with violin-shaped plaque, hatched...

4th-5th century AD. A silver parcel-gilt military belt suite comprising: three articulating rectangular panels, each with a beaded border and fou...

1st-2nd century AD. A silver belt-stiffener plaque of propeller form, pierced for attachment at each end, niello inlaid ring-and-dot with bands of...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze amuletic pendant of a phallus with loop above, testes absent. 12 grams, 46mm (1 3/4"). Property of an Oxfordshire gen...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze plaque pendant with void, ribbed collar and thick loop, lateral loops with discoid cells (one with glass insert), fac...

3rd-4th century AD. A rectangular plaque with openwork pattern of leaf- and lozenge-shaped panels, pierced for attachment; mounted on a custom-mad...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze novacula razor with folding handle, single-edged curved blade and knop, triangular finial to the handle with lobe pie...

1st century BC-2nd century AD. A ceramic disc fragment with impression of ship with mast and gunwale. 9.15 grams, 23mm (1"). Property of a Europea...

3rd-5th century AD. An irregular square lead seal with figure of a stag walking forward on a base line. 316 grams, 60mm (2 1/4"). Property of a Ge...

10th-11th century AD. A mixed group of bronze belt fittings comprising: a buckle with kidney-shaped loop and heart-shaped plaque; four plaques wit...

7th-10th century AD. A small hand-held mirror with concentric circles and hatching to the reverse, laurel wreath around the frame, one side recess...

7th-10th century AD. A bronze belt buckle with elongated D-shaped frame, curving pin with hatched end; belt plate decorated with relief image of a...

1281-1285 AD. An early discoid papal bulla seal of the French Pope Martin IV with two bearded faces to one face, 'SPA.SPE' above; to the other, 'M...

15th century AD. A D-section gold hoop with flattened plaque, incised image of St Catherine nimbate, beside a chiaro oscuro sunburst, supporting a...

14th-15th century AD. A bronze whistle formed as three bulbs with suspension loop, chamfered mouthpiece and D-shaped hole. 47 grams, 82mm (3 1/4")...

14th century AD. A group of lead pilgrim's ampullae comprising: an example in the shape of a scallop shell (from Bromholm shrine), another depicti...

9th-11th century AD. A cast cruciform four-way strap junction with pierced trilobe terminals, at centre a prominent octagonal boss. 46.63 grams, 7...

10th-12th century AD. A bronze miniature cosmetic or medicinal spoon, the handle formed as a bifacial figure with hands on the hips, pierced lug a...

Circa 3000 BC. A lapis lazuli cylinder seal with figure and animals; accompanied by an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late ...

Early 1st millennium BC. A group of bronze belt fittings comprising: ten square plaques with openwork zigzag designs, attachment holes to the corn...

Late 2nd millennium BC. A tubular bronze finial with cotton-reel base, gusseted collar and four flanges with ring-and-dot motifs between forming a...

13th-6th century BC. A flat-section pin with finial of a ram with legs extended, modelled in the round. 11 grams, 79mm (3 1/4"). Property of a ret...

2nd-1st millennium BC. A conical stone seal with domed top, collar beneath and bell-shaped body; underside engraved with image of walking lion loo...

16th-17th century AD. A flat-section gold hoop with enamelled geometric ornament, flared bezel with scooped lower faces and enamel detailing, inse...

17th-19th century AD. A blue-glazed ceramic plaque with recessed border, high-relief profile image of an advancing faun blowing a pipe with scroll...

17th century AD. A hollow-formed bronze container for discoid trade weights, with hinged lid and pierced closure lug. 123 grams, 57mm (2 1/4"). Pr...

16th-19th century AD. A mixed group of bone corers, three with incised geometric ornament. 73 grams total, 8-12cm (3 1/4 - 4 3/4"). Property of a ...

16th-19th century AD. A mixed group of bone corers with incised geometric ornament. 80 grams total, 90-135mm (3 3/4 - 5 1/4"). Property of a Londo...

16th-19th century AD. A mixed group of bone corers with incised geometric ornament. 86 grams total, 80-125mm (3 1/4 - 5"). Property of a London co...

16th-19th century AD. A pair of bone substantial corers, one with incised geometric ornament. 90 grams total, 10-12cm (4 - 4 3/4"). Property of a ...

16th-19th century AD. A mixed bone group comprising: two narrow fish net needles with incised ornament; one broad fish net needle with incised hat...

16th-19th century AD. A mixed bone group comprising: two tongue-shaped net needles; one pentagonal net needle with incised geometric ornament; two...

16th-19th century AD. A mixed bone group comprising: two tongue-shaped net needles with incised hatching; one narrow net needle with incised geome...

16th-19th century AD. A mixed bone group comprising: two tongue-shaped net needles; one narrow net needle with incised geometric ornament; two cof...

16th-19th century AD. A mixed group of bone needles for fishing nets comprising: one pentagonal with smooth sides; three scaphoid; two heater-shap...

16th-18th century AD. A mixed group of bone tools comprising: an awl with hole to the upper end; two bone folders with scooped faces; a tooth pier...

Middle Miocene Period, 15.9-11.6 million years BP. A group of twenty five fish vertebra in an old white card collector's tray, from the Pungo Rive...

Jurassic Period, Oxfordian stage, 163-157 million years BP. A fine example of the ammonite Perisphinctids indogermanus. with most of the original ...

A fine specimen consisting of numerous rosettes of rhodochrosite on sphalerite, with accessory quartz and pyrite, from Peru, in old white card tra...

A group of sixty selenite rose specimens from Mexico, in an old white card tray. 259 grams total, 14-23cm (1/2 - 1"). Private collection, Lincolns...

19th-20th century AD. A group of cut steel dies for buttons comprising: a flat button inscribed 'NORTHDOWN RAMBLING CLUB' depicting a haversack; a...