2nd century BC-2nd century AD. A carved limestone head with stylised grotesque features, prominent nose and eyebrows, drilled mouth. See Ross, A., Pagan Celtic Britain, London, 1967, for an overview of the iconography of pre-Christian Britain and Ireland; Rynne, E., Figures from the Past, Studies on Figurative Art in Christian Ireland in Honour of Helen M. Roe, Dublin, 1987. 573 grams, 11cm (4 1/4"). Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, collector; previously in an old UK collection.