Devon Archaeol Soc Proc 62

Excavation at The Topsham School in 1997 and 2000 revealed prehistoric activity, parts of the defences of a first-century Roman military base, and graves of a later Roman inhumation cemetery. Post-medieval features included field boundaries and quarry pits, and possible evidence for a small Civil War fort. Specialist reports include

Salvage recording on the northern burh defences at Totnes showed that they consisted of a rampart c. 9m wide and a large ditch c. 5m deep. A primary organic deposit in the ditch dated to the eleventh or twelfth century; the defences appear to have been abandoned in the late fourteenth or fifteenth century. Observations made in recent years on other parts of the defences are also described. Specialist reports include

Paper on the Church Rocks wreck, one of ten Devon underwater sites designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973. Since 1975, when the site was discovered, there has been intermittent survey and excavation. The paper offers a synopsis of the early years, then details survey and excavation results in the 1990s together with an assessment of current research. Analyses are given of the ordnance, metalwork and ceramics from earlier investigations, and of ceramics and a copper-alloy seal from the 1990--95 investigations. The report concludes that the vessel was probably a lightly armed merchantman, most likely of Venetian origin, of late-sixteenth or early-seventeenth-century date. Specialist reports include

Excavations carried out at Bonhay Road, Exeter, found evidence for timber and stone structures relating to the development of Bonhay Mills from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The evidence suggests that the location of the seventeenth-century mill and the layout of the mill leat may have been subject to significant alteration in the late seventeenth century. Specialist reports include

Pottery found at an early post-Roman site at Meadowsfoot Beach, Mothecombe (Holbeton) in the 1960s has been re-examined. The assemblage includes more imported Mediterranean amphorae than previously thought, as well as sherds of locally-produced ceramics. Includes a report on

An AMS determination from Oldaport in the South Hams has provided the first absolute date of 1098 ±45 BP (calibrated to AD 873--1020) for the masonry remains of a fortification there, strengthening the interpretation that they are Late Saxon in origin.