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 ANCIENT CAMBRTDGESPIIRE. 213 the late Lord Godolpliiii, and Douglas, in his " Ncnia," details the excavation of barrows there.^ Notice was given mo some three or four years ago, that a Roman hypocaust had been ploughed into at Stapclford, and might be explored, but I was unable to attend to it at the time, and am not aware of its having been disturbed. Many horse-shoes and skeletons are stated to have been found in the low grounds about Babraham, but I have never seen any, and cannot therefore give their description. In the gravel pit at Bourne Bridge, Romano-British pottery has been turned up ; at Hildersham I have seen Roman pottery ; at Pampisford there have been found Roman coins, of which Mr. Parker Hamond can doubt- less render a correct account. Whittlesford and Duxford are Roman, as their names import. From liinxton I have a coin of Ofia. Ickleton boasts the remains of a Roman villa, which partook largely in the numismatic ^aeld of its neigh- bour Chcsterford, in Essex. But I must not cross the Rubicon of the Borough Ditch into that county without taking a complete farewell of Cambridgeshire, and to effect this, will retrace my steps in an easterly direction to Borley Wood and Horseheath, where are found many Roman coins of the higher and lower empires. Nor can I pass over without mention the discovery of a hoard of denarii at the latter place, nearly thirty years ago ; they are still in the possession of Mr. Batson, of Horseheath Lodge. Linton, though producing Roman coins, is better known to the numismatic authorities at the British Museum, as ha vino- furnished a very rare Saxon sceatta.^ There is Roman pottery in the heavy lands at Linton ; and on Linton He^th I had the good fortune last year to fall in with a second Anglo-Saxon cemetery, the details of which have been given in this Journal.^ That this place should be prolific in remains is not surprising, considering its close proximity to Bartlow, which latter village being situated in both counties, enables me to pass over the border to the celebrated Tumuli there. As is natural in such a vicinit}^ coins of the whole series are to be found, but my own experience has produced them in the greatest numbers of the very lowest empire, of silver, stiiti'd to have been found on the those figured, Arch. Journ., vol. viii. p. ?~t. Gogmagog Hills, w.as exhibited to the '' Vide Hawkins' Silver English Coins. Society of Antitiuaries by the Bishop of " See page !).'>, in this volume.
 * Anollu-r very envious Roman riiiR, Carlisle in 177(5. It closely resembled