Silchester

General Plan of Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum). Silchester, remarkable as the one town in the whole Roman empire which has been completely and systematically uncovered. As we see it today, it is an open space of 100 acres, set on a hill with a wide prospect east and south and west, in shape an irregular hexagon, enclosed in a circuit of a mile and a half by the massive rins of a city wall which still stands here and there some 20 ft. high.
Source: 1911 EB, Vol. 4, Page 587

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