1st-2nd century AD. A massive parallelepiped brick tile bearing the stamped inscription LEG I ITAL for Legio I Italica ('First Italic Legio'"). Duch, M., ‘Stamps on bricks and tiles from Novae. Outline of Chronology’ in Novensia, 28,, Warszawa, 2017, pp.99-119, v.fig. 4.1 kg, 19.5cm (7 3/4"). From a North Yorkshire collection formed since the 1980s; thence by descent. The First Italic legion produced building ceramics used in the construction of many buildings in the main legion’s camp at Novae (Bulgaria), recently collected and published by Duch. According to the style of the bricks inscriptions this fragment could be dated at the Late Flavian or early Trajanic Age. Vexillationes of the same legion operated in various parts of the Empire, like Armenia, Dacia and Mesopotamia. [No Reserve]