Ancient Cambridgeshire : Or, an Attempt to Trace Roman and Other Ancient Roads that Passed through the County of Cambridge

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Ancient Cambridgeshire : Or, an Attempt to Trace Roman and Other Ancient Roads that Passed through the County of Cambridge

Title remainder

Or, an Attempt to Trace Roman and Other Ancient Roads that Passed through the County of Cambridge

Statement of responsibility

Charles Cardale Babington

Title variation

Attempt to trace Roman and other ancient roads that passed through the County of Cambridge

Creator

• Babington, Charles Cardale, 1808-1895

Subject

• Cambridgeshire (England) -- Antiquities
• Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman
• Roads -- England | Cambridgeshire

Language

eng

Summary

This work, first published in 1853, grew from a paper describing the crossing of two Roman roads at Cambridge, and the small Roman fort at Grantchester. However, other Roman sites were added to the investigation, and the book came to encompass all the Roman and other ancient roads of Cambridgeshire, as well as the locations where Roman coins and other remains had been found. The author, Charles Cardale Babington (1808–95), is best remembered as the pupil and assistant of John Stevens Henslow and as his successor in the chair of botany at Cambridge. However, Babington was also keenly interested in archaeology, and this fascinating work of local history is the first substantial account of Roman Cambridgeshire, describing not only the courses of the various roads but also finds such as the Roman villa at Comberton, the Roman cemetery at Trumpington, and large numbers of individual coins and other artefacts.--

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• Cambridge library collection, Cambridge

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index present

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non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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• Cambridge library collection. Cambridge
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks