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Ancient Town-Planning

CHAPTER IX
26/33

A good plan of the whole town, from which fig.

33 is taken, was issued in vol.lxii, plate 64, by Mr.F.King, architect to the excavations (scale, 1:900).
[Illustration: FIG.33.

CAERWENT.
(Reduced from plan by F.King.)] Silchester and Caerwent did not stand alone in Britain.

At Wroxeter, the ancient Viroconium, tribal centre of the Cornovii and a Romano-British country-town much like Silchester, though somewhat larger, oblong 'insulae' have recently been detected by Mr.
J.P.

Bushe-Fox which measure 103 x 126 yds.


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