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LOT 0677
Romano-British Mortarium Sherd Group
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
4 1/4 - 10 in. (1.6 kg total, 11.4-25.5 cm).
Including fragments of rim with pouring lip and other features, one with inked inscription: 'BHM/3 70. US'. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound 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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