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Remains from Roman times have been discovered next to the English cathedral. It is a fragment of a street and houses
Archaeologists working at Exeter Cathedral have come across the remains of ancient Roman buildings. They indicate that where the cathedral is now located, there was once a section of a Roman camp.
Remains from the first century AD have been discovered at England’s Exeter Cathedral.
These are “new clues to Exeter’s most distant past,” archaeologists commented on their find.
During work in the cathedral’s historic courtyard, researchers unearthed a section of a Roman street, wooden beam buildings, and the stone wall of a large house.
The entirety of this was situated where the medieval cloisters’ foundations once stood. They once surrounded the courtyard. The cloisters were destroyed in the mid-17th century, during the English Civil War.
What was Exeter in Roman times?
The place where Exeter is located today used to be called Isca (Isca Dumnoniorum, to be precise). It was a Roman fort established in the middle of the first century. It was the base of Legio II Augusta, a Roman legion commanded for a time by Vespasian himself.
