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Petuaria. New evidence for the Roman town and its earlier fort

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Extract

A two-month season of excavation was carried out, on behalf of H.M. Ministry of Works, during September and October 1958 in the grounds of Brough House at Brough-on-Humber, the area which was originally occupied by the north-west corner of the Roman town of Petuaria.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1960

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page 58 note 1 Corder, P. and Richmond, I. A., ‘Petuaria’, J.B.A.A. 3rd ser. vii (1942), p. 5.Google Scholar

page 58 note 2 Ibid., pp. 11 ff.

page 58 note 3 Corder, P. and Romans, T., Excavations at … Brough, E. Yorkshire, iii (1935), p. 22Google Scholar; Corder, P. and Romans, T., Excavations at Brough-Petuaria, v (1937), p. 15Google Scholar.

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page 59 note 4 Author's italics.

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page 64 note 1 As occurred at many other towns in Roman Britain. Corder, , Arch. J. cxii, p. 20Google Scholar.

page 64 note 2 A similar realignment occurs on the east side of Bozzes Field, without there being any difference in the line of the defences. But there it is outside the wall and need bear no direct relationship to it.