Petuaria

Petuaria was originally a Roman fort situated where the town of Brough in the East Riding of Yorkshire now stands [1]. Petuaria means something like 'quarter' or 'fourth part', incorporating the archaic Brythonic *petuar, 'four' [1]. It was founded in 70 AD and abandoned in about 125 [1]. The adjacent civitas, ferry-crossing and port which grew over and replaced the fort survived until about 370, and was probably the capital of the Celtic tribe called the Parisi [1]. Petuaria marked the southern end of the Roman road known now as Cade's Road, which ran roughly northwards for a hundred miles to Pons Aelius [1]. Archaeological excavations of the site of Petuaria were carried out in the 1930s, and between 1958 and 1962 [1].