THE ROMAN VILLA AT FIFEHEAD NEVILLE. 



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administration of the Province, others to veterans who had 

 received grants of land. But it is reasonable to think that the 

 greater number were the homes of the Britons themselves who 

 had been left in undisturbed possession of their estates, and in 

 adopting the Roman civilisation had built themselves houses in 

 the Roman fashion. Indeed, the villas are too many to be 

 accounted for in any other way. From rising ground close to 

 my former home in N.W. Hampshire I could have seen, had I 

 lived, say, a.d. 300, the smoke from the chimneys of no fewer 

 than eight "villas" within less than a two-miles radius, as 

 Tityrus of old saw it at nightfall — 



" Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant." 



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Pavement found i88i. 



