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LOT 0686
Romano-British 'Waldingham' Floor Tile
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
11 x 11 1/2 in. (17.5 kg, 28 x 29 cm).
Square terracotta tegula with accretion to underside, old collector's label 'Roman Floor Tile (with original cement) from the Bathhouse / Woldingham, Surrey'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Woldingham, Surrey, 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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