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Isca Dumnoniorum
Isca Dumnoniorum
, also known simply as
Isca
, was a town in the
Roman
province
of
Britannia
at the site of present-day
Exeter
in the
English
county
of
Devon
in the
United Kingdom
. It served as the
tribal capital
of the
Dumnonians
under
and
after
the Romans. The city walls of Exeter (some 70% of which survive) mark the former perimeter of Isca and excavations in the 1970s and 1980s verified that the town was home to a
Roman fortress
almost certainly for the
Second Augustan Legion
. The town seems to have grown up around this fort (established ) but seems to have gone into decline prior to the
Roman withdrawal from Britain
.
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