Nanstallon in 1965 by Aileen Fox and Professor W. L. D. 'Bill' Ravenhill. Until recently (2007) it was the second Roman fort in Cornwall but following a geophysical survey another Roman fort has been found away near Restormel Castle. Constructed c. AD 55–60, Nanstallon fort is situated in mid Cornwall near the Fowey-Camel trade and communication route. Nanstallon was probably a forward operating base and was strategically well-placed for a Roman presence to be felt. However, the Roman Legion at Exeter was withdrawn c. AD 75 and with no Roman town west of Isca Dumnoniorum Cornwall settled down to four centuries
Isca sullo Ionio for the new community, would be called Isca Marina. Nine centuries earlier, the area now known as Isca Marina, was the original town location for the ancestors of Isca, until invasions of outsiders, forced the towns people, to higher ground. Now many hundreds of descendants of the original town location have come home. While some homes were built in the late 1940s in the marina, it was not until the early 1950s that roads, sidewalks, and the town square were built. A water supply was established in 1951. Electricity reached the town in 1953. The elementary school was completed for