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LOT 0618
Romano-British Castor Ware and Other Sherd Group
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
1 - 4 in. (804 grams total, 2.5-10 cm).
Mixed group of sherds, many with inked reference number, and collector's display cards including 'Sherd of calcite gritted bowl. Indented rim. Colchester kilns. 4th Cent.', 'NENE VALLEY / NVCIO', 'Col' for Colchester, 'CANVEY ISLAND / CC/6', 'MG/105 / CAMBRIDGE / P.', LONDON / CC/27', 'TINKERS LANE / ROCHFORD / CC/26'. [40, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound 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.
Accompanied by handwritten information display cards.
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