Roman bathhouse, Exeter, Roman basilica, Exeter, Roman forum, Exeter, and Minster, Exeter black plaque

This black commemorative plaque records: To the west of the Cathedral lie buried the remains of the bathhouse of the Roman Second Augustan Legion built c. AD60, replaced c. AD 80 by the basilica and forum of the new town Isca Dumnoniorum, which remained until the 5th century. An Anglo-Saxon minster stood here from the 7th century, elevated to cathedral status in 1050.

The site marks the location of a Roman bathhouse built around AD 60 for the Second Augustan Legion, later replaced by a basilica and forum when Exeter was established as Isca Dumnoniorum; from the 7th century, an Anglo-Saxon minster stood on this site until it was elevated to cathedral status in 1050.