Latest Discoveries

27th Jul 2020

Dig Site - Grassdale Park

Remains of a substantial wall along with Samian pottery, Vespasian coins, floors, glass, pot and plaster. Read more …

Tourist information board

26th Dec 2025

Tourist information board

2025 saw the unvieling by the Lord Leiutenant of the East Riding, Mr James Dick OBE, the communities first evertourist information board.  Sited outside the Burrs playing field on welton road it give a short history of the Roman occupancy of the area named Petuaria by the Romans. Read more …

26th Dec 2025

Golf course Geo Phys

During the social closed period of covid in 2020, and following on from an earlier community activity, James Lyall with the permision of the Brough golf course covered the full area with a magnatometer to explore what lies beneath and to try and find the lost road out of Petuaria leading to York/Eboracum. Read more …

Main Site

2nd Jun 2020

Main Site

Brough on Humber to give it its full title is thought to been the Roman settlement of Petuaria, mentioned by an ancient writer Ptolemy and was the tribal centre of the Parisi.  The Parisi were the local tribe who lived in East Yorkshire in the Roman period. Read more …

 

 

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Mash up 2025

A short video with some clips from the community dig on the Burrs 2025

 

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