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form of a raised terrace now in the garden of the Lodge of 

 Magdalene College : further traces of the same rampart have 

 been noted further west in the neighbourhood of what is now 

 Northampton Street. 



The Worsted Street has already been mentioned : if it be 

 regarded as a defensive work, it would seem that its object 

 was to provide protection against advances from the west, 

 as the vallum is on this aspect of the rampart. As already 

 mentioned, it is traceable from near the crest of the Gogmagog 

 hills for several miles, reaching beyond the county border and 

 ending indefinitely among cultivated fields. Near its Cam- 

 bridge extremity and along the crest of the same Gogmagog 

 range of hills there has been discovered a trench of consider- 

 able extent running along the line of the hills ; though filled up 

 with de'bris containing potsherds and fragments of cinerary urns 

 from a Romano-British settlement, yet the trench has been 

 recognisable as such within the memory of persons still alive, 

 and the various portions thus visible went by the name of the 

 "War-Ditches." If associated with the other great ramparts, 

 it would be a work of pre-Roman antiquity: but nothing 

 definitely proves this. On the other hand, remains of a 

 Romano-British settlement are locally plentiful, and there is 

 some probability that the ditch and bank originated with a 

 Roman encampment. It is to be noticed that numerous 

 skeletons have been found in the line of the filled-in trench, 

 and that these interments are most likely of post-Roman 

 date. 



Vandlebury is the name given to a circular camp situated 

 about a mile to the south-east of the "War-Ditches." It 

 was surrounded by three ramparts, between which two ditches 

 intervened : by the late Professor Babington it was regarded 

 as a British stronghold occupied subsequently by the Romans 

 as was indicated by the discovery of coins. 



If the Worsted Lodge Dyke (Worsted Street) be traversed 

 to the Icknield Way and this in turn followed for a mile to the 

 left (i.e. north-eastwards) the great Fleam Dyke will be met 



