Neck of a dummy vase in calcite from a set of implements for the Ceremony of Opening the Mouth: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Dendera, tomb of Adu I, Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, c.2278 -2231 BC

Rectangular calcite offering slab for unguent and sacred oils, with three hemi-spherical cavities along the upper edge: Ancient Egyptian, Old Kingdom, c.2345 -2181 BC

Oil jar in Egyptian alabaster (travertine/calcite) with a flat base and conoidal body inscribed with the names and titulary of King Merenre I: Ancient Egyptian, 6th Dynasty, c.2287 - 2278 BC

String of beads, including some white glaze lenticular beads and a central green glaze pendant of Bes: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Gurob, Tomb 474, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c.1479-1390 BC

Calcite relief fragment carved in delicate low relief with part of the Horus name of King Amenhotep I, probably from his White Chapel at Karnak: Ancient Egyptian, Thebes, Karnak, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c.1525 -1504

Fossil ammonite, Rasenia askepta, from the Upper Jurassic of Eathie Haven, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Fossil ammonite, Rasenia lepidula, from the Upper Jurassic of Eathie Haven, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Fossil ammonite, Rasenia lepidula, from the Upper Jurassic of Eathie Haven, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Fossil ammonite, Rasenia lepidula, from the Upper Jurassic of Eathie Haven, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Fossil ammonite, Rasenia askepta, from the Upper Jurassic of Eathie Haven, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Fossil ammonite, Rasenia lepidula, from the Upper Jurassic of Eathie Haven, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Fossil ammonite, Rasenia lepidula, from the Upper Jurassic of Eathie Haven, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Fossil ammonite, Rasenia askepta, from the Upper Jurassic of Eathie Haven, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Fossil ammonite, Rasenia cf. moschi, from the Upper Jurassic of Eathie Haven, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Fossil ammonite, Xenostephanus aff. anceps, from the Upper Jurassic of Eathie Haven, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Bead made from lead ore, Neolithic, excavated from a chambered cairn at Quanterness, Orkney