Exeter - A Place in Time

With the publication of the first EAPIT volume fast approaching, Stephen Rippon will be giving an evening Lockdown Lecture hosted by the South West Heritage Trust on the 4th March at 7.30. It will explore why the Romano-British landscapes in Devon and Somerset were so different. Details of how to book can be found here:

The South West in the Roman Period with Professor Stephen Rippon Join Professor of Landscape Archaeology Stephen Rippon, from the University of Exeter, to discover the contrasting identities of Romans in Somerset.

This map of places where Normandy tiles have been found in the UK highlights nicely Exeter's continental trade links in the late 15th/16th century. In eastern England we also find imported tiles but they are usually from the Low Countries, so this map shows the places which focused on the northern French trade centred on Rouen, with Exeter particularly dominating.

The RAMM need our help to save this important hoard!

RAMM (Royal Albert Memorial Museum) Exeter’s world-class museum has fascinating displays and galleries, fabulous exhibitions and modern amenities.

The Romans: what did they ever do for us? Well, build lots of roads for starters. But do we know where? Some we do, but for others there's surprisingly little agreement between different sources, which can make mapping them fairly difficult. The EAPIT team is therefore working hard to produce an accurate map of Roman roads in south-west Britain by weighing up all the available evidence.

Different reconstructions of Roman road networks: A) OS map of Roman Britain; B) Ivan Margary; C) Digital Atlas of Roman Britain; D) The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain

We are delighted to announce that Oxbow have agreed to publish the second EAPIT volume (as well as the first). The provisional title is Studies in the Roman and Medieval Archaeology of Exeter. It will contain stratigraphic reports on the 1970s excavations at Trichay Street, High Street, Goldsmith Street, and Rack Street, as well as an exciting account of the documentary evidence for those parts of Exeter during the medieval period. There will also be reports on the analysis of some of the pottery, archaeometallurgical debris, dendrochronological samples, Roman tile, Roman quern stones, and animal bones from Exeter, a summary of the Cathedral Close burials excavated in the 1970s, and a discussion of high status enclaves within Exeter in the decades either side of the Norman Conquest.