But Caerwent never expanded; it remained not much more than 45 acres within the walls.

Land was probably valuable within it; certainly its houses are packed closer, and its garden ground is smaller than at Silchester.

Its general type is, however, the same.

It has a very similar Forum and Basilica, Temples, an Amphitheatre, and a large number of private houses which resemble closely those of Silchester.

It has, moreover, at least in the parts that have been so far excavated, distinct traces of a rectangular street pattern, which, if it was carried through the whole town, would provide (including the Forum) twenty 'insulae'.