The Victoria History of the County of Cambridge and The Isle of Ely

Oxford UP

A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of ElyVolume VII: Roman Cambridgeshire\nAuthor(s): J. J. Wilkes, C. R. Elrington\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Early English Text Society\nISBN-13: 9780197227480, 978-0197227480\nSynopsis\nThis volume is devoted to an account of Roman Cambridgeshire. It completes the `general' articles on the county for the Victoria History, while the topography, on which four volumes have already been published, remains to be completed in three or four further volumes. Although in Roman times the county in no way formed a unit, and may indeed have been divided between the provinces of Britannia Superior and Inferior along the line of the Fen Causeway, andalthough only a relatively small part of the area looked towards the Roman settlement of Cambridge as its centre while the rest looked towards urban centres tying beyond the later county boundary, it has been possible to piece together the story of Ro.