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Prehistory
<AD55 AD
The Palaeolithic (400,000 - 10,000 years ago)The Palaeolithic was the period in which people lived by hunting and gathering on the open tundra plains of Europe before the.....
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Roman Fortress
55 - 75 AD
The Location Exeter was founded by the Roman army.....
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Roman Town
75 - 400 AD
The Town Following the departure of the legion, Exeter was chosen as the regional capital (‘civitas capital’) of the people of Devon and Cornwall - the Dumnonii.....
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Dark Age Town
400 - 900 AD
Following the virtual abandonment of the Roman town in the early 5th century, most of the area within the walls seems to have returned to agricultural use.....
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Saxon Town
900 - 1068 AD
After centuries when Exeter was virtually abandoned (excepting its monastery), town life was re-established at Exeter in late Saxon times.....
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Norman Town
1068 - 1200 AD
Writing in the mid 12th century, the author of The Deeds of Stephen described Exeter thus:Exeter is a large town, with very ancient walls built by the Roman emperors, the fourth place, they say, in En.....
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Medieval City
1200 - 1500 AD
After the vigorous growth of the 10th and 11th centuries, Exeter experienced a prolonged period of more modest success in the later middle ages.....
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Tudor City
1500 - 1640 AD
The early Tudor period brought a dramatic rise in the city’s prosperity, and by the 1520s it had returned to a position among the top half-dozen English towns, after London, Norwich, York, Bristol a.....
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Civil War
1642 - 1660 AD
Exeter suffered terrible damage in the Civil War between Charles I and Parliament of 1642-6.....
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Golden Age
1660 - 1750 AD
The years following the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 saw a spectacular rise in the city’s fortunes; between c.....
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Georgian City
1750 - 1840 AD
From the 1760s, Exeter people believed, until the early 19th century, ‘a spirit of improvement’ spread across the city.....
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Victorian City
1840 - 1901 AD
At the beginning of Victoria’s reign the city still faced very serious problems of disease and poverty.....
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Modern City
1901 - today AD
In 1900 Exeter still occupied about less than a third of the area of the modern built-up city.....
Exeter has one of the longest and most distinguished histories of any British city and you can explore over 250,000 years of it through Time Trail.
The story is told through hundreds of objects from RAMM's collections and with images of historic buildings and archaeological sites.
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