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LOT 1780
Roman and Other 'Colchester' Pottery Collection
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D. AND LATER
1 1/4 - 12 5/8 in. (8.4 kg total including box, 3-32 cm).
Including: mortaria, cooking vessels, tableware and other types, plus stone age axe fragments and a domestic animal jaw bone with teeth. [58, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Colchester, UK. (UK buyers only, not for export)
From the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK.
He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s.
Cf. similar pottery in Cool, H., Price, J., Colchester Archaeological Report 8: Roman Vessel glass from excavations in Colchester, 1971-1985,Colchester, 1985, pp.13ss.
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