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Cattle station shed yields rare 14th century artefact

An extremely rare 14th-century English time-keeping device found in a bag of old spare parts in a shed on a Central Queensland cattle property could fetch up to $300,000 at auction in London next month.
Christopher Becker and his brother were playing in the shed of their family's cattle station near Baralaba, southwest of Rockhampton in the mid-1970s when they came across the brass quadrant marked with the badge of King Richard II.
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