 On St Andrew 's Hill , to the north @-@ west of Cullompton town centre , two Roman forts were discovered in 1984 by aerial photography carried out for Devon County Council . The earlier , smaller fort ( the boundary ditches of which showed up in cropmarks ) was later replaced by a second , larger fort . The ramparts of this second fort are preserved on two sides as modern field boundaries with substantial earthen banks with hedges on top . The banks on the other two sides were removed shortly before the site was recognised as Roman . The site was made a scheduled monument in 1986 . The aerial photography also revealed two subsidiary military enclosures or annexes to each fort . In 1992 a geophysical survey was made of the fort and areas to the east and west and this was followed by a trial excavation to the west of the site . These confirmed the existence of two forts , and the ditch of the second fort was excavated . Pottery from the site was dated from around 50 – 70 AD , which is consistent with a previous date of before 75 AD based on finds from fieldwalking . A Roman settlement near Shortlands Lane was excavated in 2009 . A large quantity of Roman pottery , burial remains and fragments of hypocaust tile from the second and third century was found . 
