More information : The identification of the civitas of Petuaria with
the Roman walled enclosure at Brough-on-Humber (see SE 92 NW 12)
has depended almost entirely on a 2nd century limestone
dedication-slab found in 1937 (a) incorporated in the masonry
of an early 4th century internal building. The stone commemorated
the dedication of a new proscaenium (stage) of the theatre at
vicus Petuaria by a junior magistrate Marcus Ulpius Janaurius.
Excavations of the site in 1958-61 (d), however, revealed a
chronology of military rather than civil fortification and
buildings, and the location of Petuaria was speculatively placed
elsewhere (see SE 92 NE 20). (1)
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