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LOT 0841
Romano-British 'Colchester' Samian Ware Sherd Group
1ST CENTURY A.D.
5 1/8 - 5 7/8 in. (83 grams total, 13-15 cm).
Comprising four curved sherds of burnished redware with carinated profile and scrolled tendrils in low-relief with rosettes and palmettes; with old collector's card 'Fragments of same Samian Decorated Bowl. / La Graufesenque / Nero-Vespasian Period / Found Colchester'. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Colchester, Essex, 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 an old handwritten catalogue information card.
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