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<p>[QUOTE="SeptimusT, post: 3301130, member: 91240"]Here's a few things I've acquired over the past few months. I never spend much on antiquities, but I manage to snag some neat things from time to time. </p><p><br /></p><p>A Roman lamp, supposedly dated to the 1st century AD (haven't researched it enough to confirm this). It has a left facing bust on the discus, which looks to me to be wearing a helmet, perhaps Athena/Minerva. But there is some sort of object over the shoulder that I can't identify (could just be hair?). At any rate it has reddish terra sigillata type slip but is charred from fire all over. The bottom has the initial NI or MI incised. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]874545[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]874544[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]874543[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>An openwork Romano-British plate brooch which resembles a lyre to me, 2nd to early 3rd century AD. From Lincolnshire. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]874548[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A Romano-British ring fragment, with an incised image of an eagle with wings spread. There is a star, or possibly a crude chi-rho, above it. Unsure of date beyond Roman period.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]874553[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SeptimusT, post: 3301130, member: 91240"]Here's a few things I've acquired over the past few months. I never spend much on antiquities, but I manage to snag some neat things from time to time. A Roman lamp, supposedly dated to the 1st century AD (haven't researched it enough to confirm this). It has a left facing bust on the discus, which looks to me to be wearing a helmet, perhaps Athena/Minerva. But there is some sort of object over the shoulder that I can't identify (could just be hair?). At any rate it has reddish terra sigillata type slip but is charred from fire all over. The bottom has the initial NI or MI incised. [ATTACH=full]874545[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]874544[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]874543[/ATTACH] An openwork Romano-British plate brooch which resembles a lyre to me, 2nd to early 3rd century AD. From Lincolnshire. [ATTACH=full]874548[/ATTACH] A Romano-British ring fragment, with an incised image of an eagle with wings spread. There is a star, or possibly a crude chi-rho, above it. Unsure of date beyond Roman period. [ATTACH=full]874553[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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