Isca Dumnoniorum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, David Mimno, Tom Elliott
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History
Isca Dumnoniorum (modern Exeter) was a Roman military complex and later town that was the likely base of Legio II Augusta in the first century, before its move to Isca Silurum.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79531
50.725562, -3.5269108
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of modern Exeter (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Exeter (English, modern)
- Isca (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Isca Dumnoniorum (Latin, AD 43 - AD 410)
- Iscadvmnoniorv̄ (Iscadumnonioru: Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Isca Dumnoniorum connection Fosse Way (unspecified date range)
- Isca Dumnoniorum located near Iska (river) (AD 43 - AD 410)
- Exeter Roman Bathhouse located at Isca Dumnoniorum (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed Roman fort, Cheeke Street, Exeter located at Isca Dumnoniorum (unspecified date range)
fort, settlement, settlement-modern
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 8 D4 Isca
- Griffith 2022 pages 178-179 see "Isca Dumnoniorum"
- PECS (Perseus) ISCA DUMNONIORUM (Exeter) Devonshire, England
- PastScape (Internet Archive) 448306
- RE Isca [2] Isca Dumnoniorum (Francis John Haverfield)
- Rippon 2021
- Salvatore 2024
- ToposText Isca Dumnoniorum (Britannia)
- Wacher 1995 335-43
- Wikipedia (English) Isca Dumnoniorum
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 D4 Isca
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Exeter
Isca Dumnoniorum (modern Exeter) likely dates ca. A.D. 75, when Legio II Augusta moved to Caerleon. The site was likely a civitas capital by ca. A.D. 80; the forum and basilica date to this time. The site was abandoned and had become a cemetery by the fifth century.
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, David Mimno, and Tom Elliott, 'Isca Dumnoniorum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79531> [accessed: 12 October 2026]
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Isca Silurum is a made-up name for which there is no Roman evidence.