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LOT 0634

Sold for (Inc. bp): £338

ROMANO-BRITISH 'COLCHESTER' BUFF WARE JUG
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
12 1/2 in. (1.23 kg, 31.5 cm).

Piriform jug with strap handle and stepped rim to the mouth; ol inked inscription to the underside: '2nd C. Jug / Excavated 21/3/76. 15 metres S.W. Balkerne gate / 3 metres below Road level. R. McCluskey'; repaired. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Excavated near Balkerne Gate, Colchester, UK, on 21st March 1976, by R. McCluskey.
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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