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LOT 0769
Romano-British Pottery Sherd Collection
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 - 11 1/4 in. (6.4 kg total, 6-28.5 cm).
Including roof-ridge channel, floor tile, bowl rim and other items. [15, 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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