Editing Cambridge (section)

=== Roman ===
{{Main|Duroliponte}}
The principal [[Roman Britain|Roman]] site is a small fort (''{{lang|la|[[castrum]]}}'') '''[[Duroliponte]]''' on [[Castle Hill, Cambridge|Castle Hill]], just northwest of the city centre around the location of the earlier [[Britons (Celtic people)|British]] village. The fort was bounded on two sides by the lines formed by the present [[Mount Pleasant, Cambridge|Mount Pleasant]], continuing across [[Huntingdon Road]] into Clare Street. The eastern side followed Magrath Avenue, with the southern side running near to [[Chesterton Lane, Cambridge|Chesterton Lane]] and [[Kettle's Yard]] before turning northwest at Honey Hill.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gray |first=Ronald D |author2=Stubbings, Derek |title=Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgestreetn00gray |url-access=limited |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |date=2000 |location=Cambridge |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgestreetn00gray/page/n23 2]–3 |isbn=978-0-521-78956-1}}</ref> It was constructed around AD&nbsp;70 and converted to civilian use around 50 years later. Evidence of more widespread Roman settlement has been discovered, including numerous farmsteads<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/aug/28/archaeology-cambridge-university-girton-roman |title=The Roman foundations of Cambridge |first=John |last=Henley |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=28 August 2009 |quote='What's interesting about Cambridge is that with these tracts of land bequeathed to the university, you have a lot of preserved green space coming in close to the city centre,' says Chris Evans, head of the Cambridge unit. 'It hasn't been developed in the intervening centuries. There are iron-age and Roman farmsteads literally every 200–300 metres.' |access-date=26 February 2012 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219235450/http://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/aug/28/archaeology-cambridge-university-girton-roman |archive-date=19 December 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> and a village in the Cambridge district of [[Newnham, Cambridgeshire|Newnham]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/schoolgirls-unearth-roman-village-under-college-garden |title=Schoolgirls unearth Roman village under College garden |publisher=University of Cambridge |date=22 September 2010 |quote=Large amounts of Roman pottery convinced both Dr Hills and Dr Lewis that they had dug through to the remains of a 2,000-year-old settlement, significant because it suggests that the Roman presence at Newnham was far more considerable than previously thought. |access-date=26 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016055235/http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/schoolgirls-unearth-roman-village-under-college-garden |archive-date=16 October 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>