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LOT 0591
Romano-British British-Found Pottery Sherds
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 - 5 1/2 in. (9.85 kg total, 2-14 cm).
Mainly domestic ware fragments, mortaria, amphorae and other types; in a wooden collector's tray, some with inked inscriptions including 'Col.' for Colchester. [Large quantity, No Reserve]
Provenance
Found UK.
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.
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