There it stood, with no other house near it, yet with its two sides blankly waiting for the street that ought to form itself to the right and left.
The opposite of this has occurred at Calleva; here the rural house has been used, with scarcely a change, to form a town.

We see the Roman street-plan introduced in surroundings which are not properly urban.
The outward expression of the civilised municipal system jostles against a provincial and rural life.

Here was a premature attempt to municipalize the Briton, which outstripped the readiness of the Briton to be municipalized.

Silchester was probably a tribal centre before the Roman came; for awhile it may have remained much the same under Roman rule.

But forty years after the Roman Conquest, in the reign of Vespasian (about A.D.