Its area is by no means filled with buildings.

Garden ground must have been common and cheap, and the buildings themselves do not form continuous streets; they do not even front the roadway in the manner of houses in Italian towns.
In these respects Silchester differs widely from any of the examples which we have already considered, so far as their internal buildings are known to us.

I will not call it a 'garden city', for a garden city represents an attempt to add some of the features of the country to a town.

Silchester, I fancy, represents the exact opposite.

It is an attempt to insert urban features into a country-side.
[108] For accounts of the Silchester excavations, see _Archaeologia_, vols.