Venta Belgarum 144 acres (58 ha), making it among the largest towns in Roman Britain by surface area. The city had many fine Roman town houses or "domus", as well as public buildings and Roman temples. Like many other Roman towns however, Winchester began to decline in the later fourth century. The forum-basilica appears to have included a temple to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva along with an accompanying Jupiter Column. Elsewhere, there was a Romano-British style temple dedicated to the Celtic horse goddess, Epona. There was a large Romano-British cemetery to the north of the town, at Lankhills, and another to the
Charterhouse Roman Town Charterhouse Roman Town Charterhouse Roman Town was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Its site is located just to the west of the village of Charterhouse-on-Mendip in the English county of Somerset. Its Latin name may have been Iscalis, but this is far from certain. Based on inscriptions on a pig of Roman lead BRIT. EX. ARG. VEB, meaning "British (lead) from the VEB... lead-silver works", the Roman name has been reconstructed as Vebriacum (with Iscalis more plausibly placed at Cheddar). It is associated with the Iron Age hill fort, Charterhouse Camp. The Roman landscape has been designated