The ordinary consuls in Rome for the year AD108 (a.u.c. 861) were Appius Annius Trebonius Gallus and Marcus Atilius Metilius Bradua. This junior consul may well be the man who was later sent by the emperor Trajan to govern the British province. He was seemingly replaced by the emperor Hadrian almost as soon as he rose to power in August AD117.
An inscription on a stone from Tomen-y-Mur in Gwynedd (RIB 419) reads: ... BRADVA ... PRO PRAETORE or "[...] Bradua [...] Propraetor", which at least indicates that there was a propraetor [Roman Governor] of Britain who possessed that name. It is possible that the stone should be dated to the later Hadrianic period, perhaps c. AD126 after Platorius Nepos.
