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Bloke finds rusty bronze head in garden and is stunned to discover how much it's worth

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auction.Its stunned owner discovered the 'unusual item' while removing the remains of a collapsed outhouse.It is expected to fetch between £4,000 to £6,000 at an auction in Bristol.Auctioneer Aiden Khan from East Bristol Auctions said: "It's a very unusual item."We believe it to be a nineteenth century copy of the of Roman statue 'Head Of Minerva' which was uncovered in Bath in the eighteen century."It is clearly a copy taken directly from the actual head as it bears all the imperfections of the original."The mystery though, is that there is no record of such a copy ever having been taken."Research by the owner into the head's origin led them first to the museums of Bath and then to the British Museum who had custody of the relic from 1920.

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