It may be admitted that the influence of this class of house has not infrequently affected builders in Roman Britain.

But the differences between the British 'Courtyard house' and that of the south are very considerable.
In particular, the amount of ground covered by the courts differs entirely in the two kinds of houses, while for the British houses of the plainer 'corridor' type the Mediterranean lands offer no analogies.

We cannot find in them either _atrium_ or _impluvium_, _tablinum_ or peristyle, such as we find in Italy, and we must suppose them to be Roman modifications of really Celtic originals.

This, however, no more implies that their occupants were mere Celts than the use of a bungalow in India proves the inhabitant to be a native Indian.[1] [Footnote 1: _Vict.Hist.Somerset_, i.

213-14.