8); sometimes they enclosed two or three sides of a large open yard (Courtyard House, Fig.

9); a third type somewhat resembles a yard with rooms at each end of it.

In any case they were singularly ill-suited to stand side by side in a town street.

When we find them grouped together in a town, as at Silchester and Caerwent--the only two examples of Roman towns in Britain of which we have real knowledge--they are dotted about more like the cottages in an English village than anything that recalls a real town (Fig.

10).
[Footnote 1: British examples have been noted at Silchester and Caerwent, and in many scattered sites in rural districts.