Roman Bronze Spatula

Comprising six albums: a photo album with pictures from Calleva Atrebatum, Roman Silchester in Hampshire, England, showing categorised images of artefacts and displays from Reading museum with handwritten information labels, including mosaics, jewellery, beads, pottery, tiles and other artefacts; a photo album with images from Tullie House Museum showing pictures of oil lamps, oil lamps, pottery, some with handwritten information labels, also containing images from Colchester Castle Museum comprising images of pottery, Samian ware moulds, and other artefacts, and images from Wroxeter Roman city, pictures of six stones from the Roman camp at Old Penrith, pictures from Newcastle Museum, and from Great Witcombe villa in Gloucestershire; an album with postcards and printed information cards from Vindolanda, a Roman auxiliary fort south of Hadrian's Wall showing life and costumes during Roman occupation; another album with photographs from Corbridge, a Roman town south of Hadrian's Wall, pictures taken at Aldborough Roman town, and pictures from Yorkshire Museum in York; an album containing black-and-white images of mainly Roman and Byzantine coins; a scrap book with labelled pictures and postcards from Chedworth Roman Villa, Chesters Roman Fort in Northumberland, Housesteads Roman Fort, antiquities in Chesters Museum, Hadrian's Wall area, Aesica (Great Chesters), Vindolanda, and miscellaneous pictures of historic places and artefacts. 12.9 kg total, 26.5 x 28.5 - 33.5 x 29 cm



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.

Comprising a pair of twisted iron bars linked at the centre, loop at each outer end with free-running flat-section ring. 217 grams, 30 cm



Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa 1984. Property of an Essex collector.

Restrung designer group of graduated seed beads, oblate, biconvex and other types, the centrepiece a polyhedral bead. 15.7 grams, 41 cm



Acquired on the London, UK, art market in the 1990s. Ex London, UK, gallery.