ABSTRACT
It is interesting to compare the similarity between Caistor-by-Norwich and Caerwent, the capital of the Silures. The two capitals were very similar in their later size and plan. Both towns, as the result of earlier vicissitudes and due to the impoverishment of their aristocracies, missed the great period of Flavian development and never fully made up the lost ground. Both Winchester and Caerwent carry elements of Venta in their modern names, whereas Caistor does not, and there is reason to believe that by the fourth century the town was simply called Icinos, a development which can be observed in other towns of the western Empire. The later history of Cogidubnus and his centre at Chichester, arising from his over-rule of other civitates, is to some extent inextricably mixed with Silchester and Winchester, both of which may be assumed to have been within his realm, and with the events of ad 69–70.
