we have just taken delivery of a whole host of branded items for this years festival. new this year we have key character key rings, loot bags, Petuaria bottle openers, heat changing mugs with a mystery character on it. …read more
Posted on 11th Apr 2025 13:54:13 by petuAdmin
With only a few weeks togo to the 2025 Roman ReVival festival on the Burrs playing field here in Brough on Humber it is great to announce one of the headliners the Autonomous Re Enactors Collective. …read more
Posted on 11th Apr 2025 13:20:35 by petuAdmin
on Saturday 29th Petuaria REVisited took part in Elloughton cum Brough Town Council Heritage trail event at their offices inBrough on Humber. …read more
Posted on 31st Mar 2025 06:08:25 by petuAdmin
in 1937 in a field now known locally as “The Burrs” a piece of stone was noticed during an excavation by Bertie Gott and his team, subsequent inquisitiveness found that it was no ordinary stone as it had been worked, and words were inscribed upon it. …read more
Posted on 25th Mar 2025 06:26:22 by petuAdmin
Elloughton cum Brough Town Council are championing a new heritage trail around its environment going back in time to the Roman invasion and beyond we are proud to announce that we will be playing our part in this initiative specialising in the Roman aspect of our past. …read more
Posted on 20th Mar 2025 17:56:34 by petuAdmin
Over the course of a year we find ourselves out in the community delivering project updates to many of our local comunity groups, and often far a field as London. …read more
Posted on 17th Mar 2025 18:43:08 by petuAdmin
12th July sees the start of our bi yearly community Roman festival on the Burrs Playing field here in Brough on Humber. This years festival known as the Roman Revival sees the reprise of the Vi Legion and other regular attendees. This years guest group and headlines will be the Autonomous Reenactor Collective …read more
Posted on 17th Mar 2025 18:10:45 by petuAdmin
During the 2024 excavation we invited all the communty to an open day on the Burrs to see the excavation and learn more about the project. The event was well attended and was used as a vehicle to unveil the projects new tourist information board. …read more
Posted on 17th Mar 2025 07:16:46 by petuAdmin
As Petuaria developed into the settlement we believe it was it went through a number of phases. One of those phases saw the evolution of a port where national and international goods were landed on their way North but where was it. …read more
Posted on 16th Mar 2025 15:54:57 by petuAdmin
During the 2023 season dig in very water logged back garden trench ajoining the playing fieldn almost whole antler from a red deer was discovered. this begs the question why was this antler left unsued. A antler was considered to be highly regarded and neccessary comodity in every day life for making tools combes dice etc …read more
Posted on 14th Mar 2025 20:05:40 by petuAdmin
Short on ideas for presents, why not visit our memorabilia and gift site for our Petuaria ReVisited branded merch. All monies go back into the project to help pay for those every day essentials, those essentials that a grant wont cover. …read more
Posted on 13th Mar 2025 14:03:57 by petuAdmin
Do you want to be part of this years dig team ? Starting 19th July for 2-3 weeks, keep a look out on our facebook page for joining instructions. …read more
Posted on 13th Mar 2025 13:29:59 by petuAdmin
A big thanks must go to Dr Nicholas Summerton, Peter Halkon, Ian Rowlandson, and Mark Hoyle for contributing/organising and putting on two Community Involvement events over the past few months. …read more
Posted on 12th Mar 2025 19:28:46 by petuAdmin
This year see the end of the wall excavation dig on the Burrs finalising three years of intence excavations confounded with all types of weather (2023 - wet land due to rain, 2024 - hard land due to dry period). …read more
Posted on 12th Mar 2025 18:43:15 by petuAdmin
Don’t forget to put 12th of July in your diary as its Roman Festival time again. …read more
Posted on 12th Mar 2025 17:33:39 by petuAdmin
As we fastly approach 2023 we have one thing on our mind, our community and what can the project do for it this year? well for one there is the Roman festival on the 15th of July where everyone is invited to this free event. …read more
Posted on 23rd Dec 2022 07:30:23 by petuAdmin
As the end of another year approaches with another years dig behind us its time to look back on what we have achieved this year. …read more
Posted on 23rd Dec 2022 07:24:45 by petuAdmin
As we say good by to 2021 and say hello to 2022 lets start the new year, here we have the rest of the dig round up videos featuring Dr Halkon and James Lyall during the course of the dig. …read more
Posted on 2nd Jan 2022 16:12:29 by petuAdmin
Dr Halkon explains the latest hypothesis and findings on day four of this years dig now that the wall feature that was found last year has been removed. …read more
Posted on 13th Nov 2021 17:55:02 by petuAdmin
Dr Halkon rounds up the days activitiies in the three open trenches with some supprises in store. …read more
Posted on 8th Nov 2021 07:30:43 by petuAdmin
A selection of videos produced for the dig by Diarmaid Walshe from We Dig Heritage.
Posted on 24th Oct 2021 17:14:11 by petuAdmin
Here are a selection of photos and videos from this years dig. It is not an exhhausted list but gives a flavour of how it went. …read more
Posted on 22nd Oct 2021 17:35:34 by petuAdmin
As we get ever closer to this years special community and wellbeing “Archaeology for All” dig we would like a little help for one of our partners.
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Posted on 4th Jun 2021 05:54:49 by petuAdmin
Upto the time of publishing this post the festival is still on with an even bigger and more exciting educational experience for the community. …read more
Posted on 2nd Apr 2021 06:35:58 by petuAdmin
We are proud to announce that for 2021 we have a new main Sponsor for the Dig. Carmichael International Ltd is helping us to be able to acheive our objectives in been able to provide a wellbeing experience for those in a bad place due to the constraints we have endured over the last year due to the pandemic. …read more
Posted on 2nd Apr 2021 06:20:19 by petuAdmin
