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Lot 617
A ROMANO BRITISH ALTAR-SHAPED TOMBSTONE, the top with a swept pediment and a circular depression flanked by "bolsters", the front with a Latin inscription, on a moulded plinth base, probably 1st/2nd century AD, 15" wide x 22.5" high Provenance: Dr. Gordon Scott (born 1905) and thence by descent. Probably acquired from Roger Warner in the 1950`s and thence by descent in the family. Private collection Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. The inscription of six lines of Roman capitals begins D[IS]M[ANIBUS] S[ACRUM (Sacred to the spirits of the departed). The following three lines have several clear letters, which probably give the name and status of the departed, the second line ends with CIVIS (citizen), the third is SECVNDIANVS, then N[VN]C. POTEST which may translate as `now obtains a temple`, the fifth line is VIX[IT] ANN[OS] XXXIIII `Lived thirty-four years`. The final line as H[IC] S[ITA] E[ST] `is placed here`. A Romano-British origin has been suggested, but there is no precedent recorded in R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright "The Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, Inscriptions on Stone", Oxford (1965). If it does come from one of the major cities of Britain, it is a curious escapee. It could have come from the Continent, but tomb stones were not generally items that were thought important enough to merit being collected, unlike sarcophagi, which attracted the attention of gentlemen on the Grand Tour from 17th century.
Lot 622
A GEORGE III OAK LONGCASE CLOCK by John Smith, Bungay, the case with long arch door above a rectangular plinth, the hood with turned tapering pilasters surmounted by a fretwork frieze, the brass arch dial with silvered chapter ring, with Roman and Arabic numerals, inscribed `I Mark Time Doest Thou` with a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, with a two-train movement striking on a bell, 87" high
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