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LOT 255808
Large Romano-British Decorated Black-Burnished Ware Pot Sherd
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
9 in. (487 grams, 23 cm).
Substantial fragment from a bulbous vessel with an everted rim, a band of linear decoration below the rim, and the body decorated with a combing technique; the reverse with an old inked collection note 'opp. railstation Braughing'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found near the village of Braughing in Hertfordshire, UK, in the early 1960s.
By descent to the son of a late Hertfordshire gentleman collector, whose collection was formed from the 1960s.
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LOT 255808
Large Romano-British Decorated Black-Burnished Ware Pot Sherd
Estimate £30 - 40€35 - 46 (for guidance only)$41 - 54 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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