Archaeological recording at Acorn Roundabout, Exeter 1988-89 (Exeter archive site 94)

Excavations by Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit between October and November 1988 in advance of road alterations at The Acorn Roundabout site (immediately outside the Roman and medieval South Gate and City Wall) centered at SX 92160 92250. Earliest features and finds include three Pre-Roman Pits and three small Bronze Age pottery sherds. Roman military post-holes were also discovered. Early medieval activity on the site consists of a pit (earliest feature), two ditches and a group of stake and post holes, possibly relating to a structure, potentially an oven and a large number of cess pits. Civil War defenses consisted of two parallel (zigzagging pattern) ditches in front of the South gate and a larger inner ditch. Post Civil War tenement buildings brick and stone tenement buildings: houses and outbuildings, cobbled yards and garden plots which grew up during the 18th-20th centuries