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Roman ceramic antefix
Triangular antefix with moulded design: LEGXX in the centre, with a running boar below it and above it a bust, wearing a crown or headdress. The flange by which the antefix was kept in position on the eaves is broken off.
Ceramic atefix (roof decoration) of the Twentieth Legion, 75-250 CE. Found at Holt, north-east Wales. The legion was stationed at Chester.
WA_SC 3.1
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
25.1/114
Find Information
Site Name: Holt, Wrexham
Grid Reference: SJ 405 546
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1907-1915
Acquisition
Purchase, 7/1/1925
Measurements
length / mm:228
width / mm:190
maximum thickness / mm:60
thickness / mm
weight / g:1370.7
Material
ceramic
Location
St Fagans Wales Is gallery : Roman Objects
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