Somerset, on the other hand, is crowded with Roman country-houses, and has hardly any 'hams'.] [Footnote 4: Professor Vinogradoff, _Growth of the Manor_ (chap.

ii), argues strongly for the existence of Celtic land-tenures besides the Roman 'villa' system.

'There was room (he suggests) for all sorts of conditions, from almost exact copies of Roman municipal corporations and Italian country-houses to tribal arrangements scarcely coloured by a thin sprinkling of imperial administration' (p.

83).

As will be seen, this is not improbable.