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Bronze cooking pan (trulleus) of Italian or Gaulish manufacture, Mid-1st century A.D. This small 'saucepan' has a flat handle of one piece with the bowl. There is some distortion of the bowl and the vessel, when found, was in pieces. The bowl itself is small and deep and the base is equipped with ribbed concentric rings. There are internal grooves but there is no outer rim. The handle narrows towards its centre and widens out towards its free end. It now apparently terminates in a straight edge but is too damaged here for its shape to be determined with certainty. Close to the end, the handle was pierced, apparently with a trefoil hole, though again there is severe damage here. The precise role of such vessels remains obscure; they seldom betray any sign of having been subjected to heat and the heavy rings on the bases, sometimes interpreted as a means of rapidly spreading the heat of the fire, are more likely, if not merely decorative, to have served as a not too cumbersome means of balancing the vessel when full.