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station occurs (this is identified with Iceaniim of tin- 

 In the same neighbourhood a larue refuse pit containing, a 

 the rubbish, coins of Magnentius (A.D. .'!">o ;>.">:;), Yalrntinianus 

 (A.D. ;>64 ;>7f>), and Victorianus, with broken Roman pottery 

 and also bronze articles, was investigated by Professor I Iu-lie>. 

 At Mutlow Hill, bronze fibulae and numerous coins were found 

 in the foundations of a circular building near a tumulus. 

 The Beacon tumuli provided relics of a British cinerary vase 

 and some bones and ashes. Finally Roman coins and urns 

 were dug up at Exiling (for the foregoing objects and their 

 description, cf. Babington, op. cit. pp. 67, 68). 



The Fen Road was a great causeway driven through the 

 Fens, which it crossed from Huntingdon on the west to Norwich. 

 It thus connected the Ermine Street (at Huntingdon) with the 

 Akerman Street which it crossed at Denver. Traces only are 

 now to be seen of the way, which was sixty feet in width and 

 was raised some two or three feet above the surrounding lands. 

 Near it at March there were found, in 1730, two urns, one 

 containing bones and ashes, the other 300 silver coins "of all 

 the Roman emperors from Vespasian to Constantine." Much 

 Samian ware and sepulchral urns were found near Stoney, also 

 near this way, and other Roman remains, such as pigs of 

 lead, have occurred at localities supposed with more or less 

 reasonableness to have been on the same line. 



The foregoing notes must suffice for an indication of the 

 chief ancient lines of communication through the county, and 

 attention must next be turned to remains of ancient settle- 

 ments or fortifications. The first of these to claim attention 

 will be the well-known Castle Mound, a great tumulus situated 

 on the north bank of the Cam and close to the former site of 

 Cambridge Castle. This tumulus is not however to be re- 

 garded as of much greater antiquity than the 9th century 

 (cf. J. W. Clark's Guide to Cambridge, in which a section is 

 represented passing through the mound and neighbouring 

 region). An outlying line of defence is still recognisable 

 between the base of Castle Mound and the river bank, in the 



