CAMBORICUM
CAMBORICUM in Britain. Another reading is
Camboritum, and perhaps this is preferable,--the
-rit- having the same power with the
Rhed- in
Rhedyuna (Ox-
ford)==
ford. In this case the word would mean a
ford over the Cam. The name occurs in the fifth Itinerary, and the difficulties which attend it are of the same kind as those noticed under
CAMBODUNUM
The line, which is from London to Carlisle, runs to Caesaromagus (
Writtle), Colonia (
Colchester or
Maldon), Villa Faustini, Iciani, Camboricum, Durolipons, Durobrivae, Causennae, Lindum,--this latter point alone being one of absolute certainty, i. e.
Lincoln. That
Ancaster == Causennae is
nearly certain; but the further identifications of Villa Faustini with
Dunmow, of Iciani with
Chesterford, and Durolipons with
Cambridge or
Godmanchester, and of Durobrivis with
Caistor or
Water-Newton, are uncertain. Add to this the circuitous character of any road from London to Lincoln
viã either Colchester or Maldon.
The two localities most usually given to Camboricum are
Cambridge and
Icklingham (near Mildenhall in Suffolk).
In the former place there are the
castra of
Chester-ton and Grant-
chester, in the latter a
Camp-field, a
Rom-pit-field, and numerous Roman remains. Again,--as Horsley remarks,--the river on which Icklingham stands runs into the Cam, so that the first syllable may apply to the one place as well as the other. Probably, the true identification has yet to be made.
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R.G.L]
