earth, some with the impression of the maker on the bottom: there were likewise glass lachrymatories, _ampullas_, a _fibula_ of brass, six small glass rings, two long glass beads of a green colour, and other fragments. [Sidenote: +Salinæ.+] Northward still upon a high sandy hill, by the bank of the river Ivel, is a Roman camp called Chesterton: under it lies the town called Sandy, or Salndy, the _Salinæ_ of the Romans in Ptolemy, where great quantities of Roman and British antiquities have been found, and immense numbers of coins, once a brass _Otho_, vases, urns, lachrymatories, lamps. Mr. Degg has a cornelian intaglia, and a British gold coin dug up here, _Tascio_ upon it. Thomas Bromsal esq. has a fine silver _Cunobelin_ found here, of elegant work; others of Titus, Agrippina, Trajan, Hadrian, Augustus, Antoninus Pius, Faustina, Constantius Chlorus, Constantinus Magnus, Carausius, Alectus, Tetricus, and many more.[53] His great grandfather, high-sheriff of this county, preserved the invaluable Cottonian library from plunder in the time of the commonwealth, whilst it was at Stratton in this county, about anno 1650. The soil here is sand, perfectly like that on the sea shore. I imagine a Roman road passed by this place westward from Grantchester by Cambridge. [Sidenote: +Camboritum.+] [Sidenote: TAB. LIX.] [Sidenote: Roman _camp_.] [Sidenote: TAB. XLV.] Return we to Royston again. Going upon the Icening-street the other way, just upon the edge of Cambridgeshire, we come to Chesterford upon the river going to Cambridge, near Icleton and Strethal. In July, 1719, I discovered the _vestigia_ of a Roman city here: the foundation of the walls is very apparent quite round, though level with the ground, including a space of about fifty acres: great part of it serves for a causeway to the public Cambridge road from London: the Crown inn is built upon it:[54] the rest is made use of by the countrymen for their carriages to and fro in the fields: the earth is still high on both sides of it: in one part they have been long digging this wall up for materials in building and mending the roads: there I measured its breadth twelve foot, and remarked its composition of rag stone, flints and Roman brick: in a little cottage hard by, the parlour is paved with bricks; they are fourteen inches and an half long, and nine broad. In the north-west end of the city,[55] the people promised to show me a wonderful thing in the corn, which they observed every year with some sort of superstition. I found it to be the foundation of a Roman temple very apparent, it being almost harvest time: here the poverty of the corn growing where the walls stood, defines it to such a nicety, that I was able to measure it with exactness enough: the dimensions of the cell, or _naos_, were fifteen foot in breadth, forty in length; the _pronaos_, where the steps were, appeared at both ends, and the wall of the portico around, whereon stood the pillars.