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 ANCIENT CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 209 I have chronicled them only from personal observation, without jiretending to give a complete and unerring catalogue. In taking an Archaeological survey of a country, the objects which first naturally attract the eye, are the most prominent features of ancient occupation presented on the surface, such as Roman roads, earthworks, and tumuli. To begin with the roads : the old ways, though they must have been very numerous, are now nearly obliterated and difficult to trace, frequently only appearing at intervals where their direction suits the course of the modern track. Of this kind is that upon Streetway Hill, connecting the road from Six Mile l^ottom to Little Wilbraham with the village of Great Wilbraham ; but the most perfect and extensive ancient road, as far as I know, in Cambridgeshire is that marked in some maps as the Wool Street. It originates in Cambridge, but my cognisance of it commences with the Gogmagog Hills, whence it proceeds in a south-easterly direction, crossing the turnpike road from Newmarket to London, near Worstead Lodge, and running to the North of Hildersham and Abington at the back of Borley Wood, within a mile of Bartlow, to Horseheath Lodge, and thence to Withersfield, Haverhill, and Colchester. The roads leading from the important station at Cliesterford to Cambridgeshire are not very evident ; the principal one, probably, took the modern way into Ickleton, and so on to Duxford (where there is a very Roman looking brancli westward to Triplow), and proceeded behind Wliittlesford towards Cambridge. Another, proceeding from the north side, was joined at Stumps Cross by the short track from Ickleton, running by Bourn Bridge to the Fleam Dyke. The lines from Chesterfoi'd into Essex are more distinct ; from the east side an old road runs below Burton Wood, over Cliesterford and Hadstock Commons into Hadstock Village, which it imites with Bartlow, the three-quarters of a mile between these two villages being the most perfect specimen of a Roman way with which I am acquainted. To the west, the old way from Strethall to Ickleton branches into British and Roman Roads in Caml)ri(l<;o- specially the object of Mr. Neville's re- shire, given by Mr. Bahington in the searches, it will be found to present a Publicatioiisof the ("ambridjie Antifiuarian valuable sunnnary of information for the Society, i)vo., No. III. (Tarker, London.) whole county. Although less complete in the district