A few Romano-British houses at Silchester (_in insula_ xiv.

(1), see _Archaeologia_, lv.

221) and at Caerwent (house No.

3, see _Arch._ lvii, plate 40) do bear some resemblance to the Mediterranean type, as I have observed in _Archaeol.
Anzeiger_, 1902, p.105.But they stand alone.

Similarly, parallels may be drawn between Pompeian wall-paintings of houses and certain 'villa' remains in western Germany, as at Nennig; see Rostowzew, _Archaeol.
Jahrbuch_, 1904, p.103.But these again seem to me the exception.] The point is made clearer by the character of the internal fittings, for these are wholly borrowed from Italian sources.