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LOT 0919
Romano-British Samian Ware Sherd Group
1ST CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 - 5 3/8 in. (1.12 kg total, 5.5-13.5 cm).
Including burnished rim and base fragments, all but two with inked or pencilled reference notations including 'Col' for Colchester, 'GRA' and BLACKFRIARS LEZ/52'. [25, 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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