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LOT 0625
Romano-British 'Colchester' Samian Ware Sherd
1ST CENTURY A.D.
6 1/8 in. (155 grams, 15.7 cm).
Large fragment with portion of base and low-relief laurel wreath, stags, tree and other ornament; inked inscription 'Colchester 149/001256 / NE Car Ditch 10.5.72' and typed record card 'Section of Bowl. / Provenance: Colchester. / Dragendorff. Type 37.'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Colchester, Essex, UK, 1972.
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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