 "Herald Express (Torquay UK)")
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Back to the beginning of the English language
; ...bottle one evening and it clicked. The Devon Exe and Ax, and the Usk in South Wales, all have a similar sound, Isca, as in Isca Dumnoniorum, the Roman name for Exeter. It's the British word for freshwater which in Gaelic is uisge, pronounced 'ushguh...
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Why county must not be carved up
; ...s history. As many people would know, Exeter was called "Isca" by the Romans and "Keresk" by the ancient British, both...administrative centre of this then autonomous region of Britain. Isca is an abbreviation of "Isca Dumnoniorum" meaning capital of Dumnonia (from which Devon gets its name...
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 "Express & Echo (Exeter UK)")
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Genuine ambition and shrewd planning is what we need now
; ...you can't get a less promising acorn than shipping 12 to the Snotty Seconds or, indeed, having Devon's fair city of Isca Dumnoniorum described as a District of Plymouth. While February 1908 brought what must be City's most cringe- inducing result...
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Campaigners best target big polluters
; ...earliest beginnings, Exeter has been a principal centre of commerce and enterprise. The Romans called this place Isca Dumnoniorum - The Town of the People of Devon - and since those times successive generations have ensured the growth and prosperity...
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Exeter marks the spot
; ...that resonates around Exeter. Unlike York, the wall here melts surreptitiously into the fabric of the place called Isca Dumnoniorum by its first residents. The Roman wall is disguised variously as a foundation for a pedestrian walkway and a supporting...
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As city plans for future, we get to enjoy rare taste of times gone by
; ...around 150 AD it expanded to the line of the present city walls, with Princesshay becoming part of the Roman town of Isca Dumnoniorum. The city walls, although much added to by the Middle Ages, are the only visible remains of the Roman town. The most...
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Digging deep into Exeter's history
; ...around 150 AD it expanded to the line of the present city walls, with Princesshay becoming part of the Roman town of Isca Dumnoniorum. The city walls, which had been added to a lot by the Middle Ages, are the only visible remains of the Roman town...
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Captivating exhibition lurking in a dungeon
; ...maintain control over Exeter. It is perched on an ancient volcanic hill, overlaying remains of the Roman city of Isca Dumnoniorum. The castle is named after the red stone found in the hill, and used in the construction of the original buildings...
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Do we live in the barbaric England Hoskins feared? ; This year is the centenary of the birth of W G Hoskins. Born in Exeter, he made his name as a leading landscape historian particularly as the author of his most famous work, The Making of the English Landscape, in 1955, which formed the basis of the BBC television series The Landscape of England in 1976. His acclaimed book on Devon had been published in 1954.
; ...and the celtic patterns of field boundaries around Zennor, the Roman influence of villas, roads and towns such as Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter) and the growth of the Anglo-Saxon villages and their "open field" systems (few in Devon except for those...
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