and resemble similar buildings in other provinces.  The temples show something more of a local pattern (Fig. 7), which occurs also in northern Gaul and on the Rhine, but this pattern seems merely a variation of a classical type.[1] The characteristics of the private houses are more complicated.  Their ground-plans show us types which, like the temples just mentioned, recur in northern Gaul as well as Britain, but which differ even more than the temples from the similar buildings in Italy, or indeed in the Mediterranean provinces of the Empire.  The houses of Italy and of the south generally were constructed to look inwards upon open impluvia, colonnaded courts and garden plots, and, as befitted a hot climate, they had few outer windows.  Moreover, they could be easily built side by side so as to form, as at Pompeii, the continuous streets of a town.  The houses of Britain and northern Gaul looked outwards on to the surrounding country.  Their rooms were generally arranged in straight rows along a corridor or cloister.  Sometimes they had only one row of rooms (Corridor House, Fig. 8); sometimes they enclosed two or three sides of a large open yard (Courtyard House, Fig. 9); a third type somewhat resembles a yard with rooms at each end of it.  In any case they were singularly ill-suited to stand side by side in a town street.  When we find them grouped together in a town, as at Silchester and Caerwent—­the only two examples of Roman towns in Britain of which we have real knowledge—­they are dotted about more like the cottages in an English village than anything that recalls a real town (Fig. 10).

[Footnote 1:  British examples have been noted at Silchester and Caerwent, and in many scattered sites in rural districts.  For Gaulish instances, see Leon de Vesly, Les Fana de region Normande (Rouen, 1909); for Germany, Bonner Jahrbuecher, 1876, p. 57, Hettner, Drei Tempelbezirke im Trevirerlande (Trier, 1901), and Trierer Jahresberichte, iii. 49-66.  The English writers who have published accounts of these structures have tended to ignore their special character.]

[Illustration:  FIG. 7.  GROUND-PLANS OF ROMANO-BRITISH TEMPLES.  CAERWENT AND SILCHESTER.]

[Illustration:  FIG. 8.  GROUND-PLAN OF A SMALL CORRIDOR HOUSE FROM FRILFORD, BERKSHIRE.

(From plan by Sir A.J.  Evans.)]

[Illustration:  FIG. 9.  COURTYARD HOUSE AT NORTHLEIGH, OXFORDSHIRE, EXCAVATED IN 1815-16. (Room 1, chief mosaic with hypocaust; rooms 8-18, mosaic floors; rooms 21-7 and 38-43, baths, &c.  Recent excavations show that this plan represents the house in its third and latest stage.  See p. 31.)]

[Illustration:  FIG. 10.  DETAILED PLAN OF PART OF SILCHESTER.  Showing the arrangement of the private houses and the Forum and Christian Church. (From the plan issued by the Society of Antiquaries.) (See p. 31.)]