English: A copper alloy handle from a Roman patera or skillet. The flat handle is broken with the circular terminal which would have contained a suspension hole missing. It is 92.6mm long, 83.3mm wide and 13.4mm thick. The handle has concave ends, the wider one which would have continued into the vessel rim, and a narrower end where the missing terminal would have been. The handle is made from two pieces of metal. The top piece was probably cast with the rest of the vessel, but breaks half way along the handle. The lower piece is attached by two copper alloy rivets which pass through both pieces. It extends further towards the terminal of the handle and oddly is decorated on the face that would have been covered by the broken top piece. The decoration is a moulded double groove round the edge. The same decoration appears on the top piece. The narrower end of the handle is bent downwards which has damaged the patina. There is also extensive pitting and corrosion, but where it is undamaged the object has a beautiful glossy patina. A similar object is recorded on the database as WMID-6C2FE3, from Staffordshire, and a complete patera with a similar handle is illustrated in Allason-Jones, L, and Miket, R, 1984, ‘The Catalogue of small finds from South Shields Roman Fort’, pages 146, 149 & 150, ref no 358. This complete patera is dated to the mid 1st century AD.