Latest Roman finds at Exeter

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Exeter in Southwest England was the site of archaeological studies since the early 70s, uncovering a Roman military bathhouse and later a Roman fortress. The city continues to be the site of Roman discoveries:

(Excavation of the Roman military bathhouse, first discovered in the 70s.)

 

(Roof tile found at the Roman bathhouse of Exeter.)

https://www.devonlive.com/news/history/exeters-amazing-roman-baths-hidden-6625049

 

http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_buildings/bathhouse.php

 

Recent excavations at the cloister garden at the Exeter Cathedral have discovered other Roman finds.

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These discoveries include remnants of an early Roman street, timber buildings, and the wall of a Roman town house that was later overlaid by the foundations of the medieval cloisters.

During the Roman period, present-day Exeter was known as Isca Dumnoniorum, also known simply as Isca, which was a Roman legionary fortress for the Second Augustan Legion. The town grew up around this fortress and served as the tribal capital of the Dumnonians under and after the Romans.

According to archaeologists, these findings provide “new clues to Exeter’s distant past” and offer a clearer understanding of what the site would have looked like in Roman times. The street and timber buildings are estimated to date from around AD 50-75 and were part of the Roman legionary fortress that underlies central Exeter. They likely formed a section of a lengthy barrack building that extended towards the grand stone bath-house revealed under the Cathedral Green in the early 1970s.

 

 

 

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/03/roman-remains-uncovered-at-exeter-cathedral/146699

Edited March 31, 2023 by guy