Cambridge

• Cambridge is a University city located on the River Cam, 55 miles (89km) north of London in County of Cambridgeshire.
• It was the site of a Roman Fort called Duroliponte.

Museums

• Museum of Classical Archeology
  • Sidgewick Avenue, Cambridge.
  • The museum holds one of the largest plaster cast collections of Greek and Roman Sculptures in the world with over 450 on display, including the Farnese Hercules and the Sounion Kouros.
• The Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Trumpington Street, Cambridge.
  • The museum includes a section on the Ancient World with Artefacts from the Graeco-Roman period.
• Whipple Museum, Cambridge
  • Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge.
  • The Museum holds examples of Astrolabes in its Holden-White Collection.

Roman Roads

• Via Devana
  • Colchester-Cambridge–Leicester–Chester
• Iter V
  • Pye Road from London to Caistor St Edmund, then Cambridge–Lincoln–York–Carlisle.

Nearby Sites

• Car Dyke (c. 1st Century CE)
  • This connected the River Cam to the River Ouse.
  • A Roman Barge could travel from Cambridge to Lincoln  and on to York without venturing into the North Sea.
• Godmanchester

Photo and map: Trinity College and St. John’s College, Cambridge