2nd century BC-2nd century AD. A broadly D-section carved quartz monzonite votive head with small, circular eyes, tapering D-section nose, thin mouth, large angular chin and high cheek bones forming a characterful, asymmetrical face. See Werner Forman Archive/ Dorset Nat. Hist. & Arch. Soc. Location: 09., for a comparable head.7.4 kg, 29cm (11 1/2"). Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, collector; previously in the collection of a Cambridgeshire academic since 2000, having been frequently displayed as part of his lectures and exhibitions on Druid history; formerly recovered from Fen Dyke, Cambridgeshire, UK, in 1960. The Celts regarded the head as the spiritual powerhouse, attributing a protective function to representations of human heads in their art.