Copper-alloy, 5.38 grams, 44.75 mm. Circa 1st century BC-1st century AD. A small cast awl with one point of square cross-section and the other conical, tapering to each end. Reference: Evans, J. The Ancient Bronze Implements Weapons & Ornaments of Great Britain & Ireland, page 189. Extremely fine condition. Provenance: found Kent, UK.

Copper-alloy, 7.54 grams, 41.70 mm. Circa 1st century BC-1st century AD. A cast copper-alloy awl formed as a square-section bar narrowing to pointed ends. Reference: Evans, J. The Ancient Bronze Implements Weapons & Ornaments of Great Britain & Ireland, page 189. Fine condition. Provenance: from an old collection, found Dartford, Kent, UK.

Copper-alloy, 32.42 grams, 83.28 mm. 1st century BC. A solid cast grinder bed with ribbed cone terminals above plain collars, the outer faces decorated with transverse bands. A central square plate is pierced for suspension. The inner surface is smooth. Reference: cf. Murawski, P.G. Benet's Artefacts of England and the United Kingdom, Ely, 2003 item I14-0401. Very fine condition, complete. Provenance: found Lincolnshire, England in the 1930's.

Copper-alloy, 85 grams, 57.05 mm. 1st-8th century AD. A cast anthropomorphic figurine of a seated female figure with upraised arms. The right hand is carefully moulded in a palm-outward warding gesture; the left is vestigial, suggesting that originally a separate item was placed in front of the left side of the body - perhaps a child(?). The elliptical face is depicted with almond-shaped eyes, typical of Irish Iron Age art, and the hair is swept back from the face. The facial details are similar to those on the hilt of the Balyshannon sword, although the treatment of the hair is less detailed, and to the janiform stone head from Drumeague. Beneath the figure is an integral attachment peg. Reference: Wallace, P.F. & O Floin, R. (eds.), Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland: Irish Antiquities, Dublin, 2002 items 4.9, 4.23. Very fine condition. Provenance: from an old English collection.

Copper-alloy, 9.62 grams, 65.03 mm. 1st century BC - 1st century AD. A cast grinder bed with smoothed inner surface and single securing loop. The grinder was used to pulverise vegetable material such as woad in the preparation of dyes. Reference: Murawski, P.G. Benet's Artefacts of England and the United Kingdom, Ely, 2003 p.88 item I14-0401. Good very fine condition. Provenance: from an old English collection.

Copper-alloy, 48.89 grams, 67.22 mm. 1st century BC. A solid cast grinder bed with deeply polished inner surface from long use. At one end the body of the grinder develops into a tauriform finial, and at the other there is an abraded zoomorphic detail probably from a ram- or dog-head. The cast ring on the lower surface is incomplete. Reference: cf. a complete example published in Murawski, P.G. Benet's Artefacts of England and the United Kingdom Ely, 2003 p.88 item I14-0401. Fine condition. Provenance: found Tilbury, Essex, England.

Copper-alloy, 23.01 grams, 31.95 mm. Circa 1st century BC. Of cast form with the spout outlet in the shape of a frog or fish mouth. Traces of solder to the edges where once affixed to a vessel. Provenance: found Billericay, Essex. Interesting and unusual.