Ancient Cambridgeshire Babington Paperback Cambridge University Press

Ancient CambridgeshireOr, an Attempt to Trace Roman and Other Ancient Roads that Passed through the County of Cambridge\nAuthor(s): Charles Cardale Babington\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108075572, 978-1108075572\nSynopsis\nThis 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 [tel], 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 substanti.