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LOT 0624
Romano-British 'Colchester' Buff Ware Jug
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
8 1/4 in. (640 grams, 22.5 cm).
Globular vessel with gusseted strap handle and trumpet-shaped mouth; accompanied by old collector's display label 'Roman Britain / Flagon / Fine buff ware 2nd. Cent. A.D. / Excavated 21/3/76. 15 metres S.W of / the Balkerne gate, Colchester / 3 metres below road surface'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceExcavated 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.
Accompanied by an old handwritten information card.
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