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. 

 

 

 

Those words indicated that a theatre existed locally and was pad for by a local public servant. The words are thought to be as follows:-

 

For the honour of the divine house of the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus,

Father of his country,

Consul for the ?2nd/3rd time,

And to the Divinities of the Emperors,

Marcus Ulpius Januarius,

Aedile of the village of Petuaria,

Presented this stage at his own expense

 

The original stone exists in the East Riding Museum in Hull, but now a facsimile of the stone is now available to bee seen in the Petuaria Centre in Brough on Humber and forms part of the small exhibition there in.

 

Posted on 25th Mar 2025 06:26:22 by Admin