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The name Isca Dumnoniorum is a Latinization of a native Brittonic name describing flowing water, in reference to the River Exe.More exactly, the name seems to have originally meant "full of fish" (cf. Welsh pysg, pl. "fish"), [2] although it came to be a simple synonym for water (cf. Scottish whisky). [3]
Isca Academy offers GCSEs, BTECs and ASDAN courses as programmes of study for pupils. Some courses are offered in conjunction with Exeter College. [4]The school emphasises its non-formal curriculum, which it believes develops skills needed to become successful learners.
A legionary bath-house was built inside the fortress sometime between 55 and 60 and underwent renovation shortly afterwards (c. 60-65) but by c. 68 (perhaps even 66) the legion had transferred to a newer fortress at Gloucester. This saw the dismantling of the Isca fortress, and the site was then abandoned.
Around 55 CE, the Romans established a legionary fortress at Isca Dumnoniorum, modern Exeter, but west of Exeter the area remained largely un-Romanised. [12] Most of Dumnonia is notable for its lack of a villa system [ a ] – though there were substantial numbers south of Bath and around Ilchester –, and for its many settlements that have ...
Roman Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum): excavations in the war-damaged areas, 1945–1947. Manchester: Published for the University College of the South-West of England by Manchester University Press. Fox, Aileen (1955). "Celtic fields and farms on Dartmoor, in the light of recent excavations at Kestor". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 20: 87 ...
Exeter was founded as Isca Dumnoniorum by the Romans in the first century CE.It became an important administrative centre for the south west of England, but travel further west (to the remainder of Devon and the whole of Cornwall) required crossing the River Exe.
Exeter originated as a Roman civitas called Isca Dumnoniorum, which was provided with town walls in about 200 AD. It later became an Anglo-Saxon burh or fortified settlement and the Roman walls were said to have been repaired and improved by King Æthelstan in the 10th century. [1] King William I depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.
Exeter (/ ˈ ɛ k s ɪ t ər / ⓘ EK-sit-ər) is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England.It is situated on the River Exe, approximately 36 mi (58 km) northeast of Plymouth and 65 mi (105 km) southwest of Bristol.