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Water Newton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. [1] Water Newton lies approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of Peterborough . Water Newton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.
Silver cup from the Water Newton Treasure. Durobrivae was a Roman fortified garrison town located at Water Newton in the English county of Cambridgeshire, where Ermine Street crossed the River Nene. More generally, it was in the territory of the Corieltauvi in a region of villas and commercial potteries.
The Water Newton Treasure is a hoard of fourth-century Roman silver, discovered near the location of the Roman town of Durobrivae at Water Newton in the English county of Cambridgeshire in 1975. [1] The hoard consisted of 27 silver items and one small gold plaque. [ 2 ]
Decorated Nene Valley Roman Pottery, Wisbech Museum Nene Valley Colour Coated Ware (or Castor Ware [1]) is a type of Romano-British ceramic produced in the lower Nene Valley centred on Durobrivae (Water Newton) [2] from the mid-2nd to 4th centuries AD.
The Water Newton early Christian silver. British Museum Publications, London, 1977. ISBN 9780714113647; Painter, Kenneth & Whitehouse, David (1990). "The History of the Portland Vase". Journal of Glass Studies. 32. Corning Museum of Glass: 24–84. JSTOR 24188030. The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Volume IV: The Silver Treasure.
St Kyneburgha's Church, Castor. Castor is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of the city centre. The parish is part of the former Soke of Peterborough, which was considered part of Northamptonshire until 1888 and then Huntingdon and Peterborough from 1965 to 1974, when it became part of Cambridgeshire.
The Antheans have no water, a supply of food that is slowly dwindling, and feeble solar power. Like all Antheans, Newton is super-intelligent, but he has been selected for this mission because he has the physical strength necessary to function in Earth's hotter climate and higher gravity.
The attention of Newton was also directed to the discharge of water from orifices in the bottom of vessels. He supposed a cylindrical vessel full of water to be perforated in its bottom with a small hole by which the water escaped, and the vessel to be supplied with water in such a manner that it always remained full at the same height.