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LOT 0704
Romano-British Grey Ware Vessel
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
4 1/2 in. (252 grams, 11.5 cm wide).
With broad body and narrow foot, everted rim; incised bands flanking the median panel with vertical groups of points. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found 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.
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