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Fragment of tesselated pavement
Stone tesserae
Width: 17cm
Length: 11.5cm
Length: 11.5cm
Museum number: M623
On display: Colonnade - central aisle
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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The tesserae are of two sizes and in three bands of colour: black, white, and red, the last being the largest. This is a fragment from a pavement of average provincial household work; perhaps from a Romano-British source.
Unrecorded
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