Chronicle to the beginnings of English History. Actual remains found
at Norba suggest rather that it was founded (not necessarily by Rome)
about, or a little before, 300 B.C.; it is therefore later than the
Terremare and Marzabotto, and later also than the Oscan age of
Pompeii. On the other hand, it came to an end in the Sullan period (82
B.C.). Its excavation has little more than begun, but it already
indicates a scheme of streets somewhat resembling that of Pompeii,[51]
and it is a useful adjunct to our better knowledge of the more famous
town. The two together furnish examples of the town-planning of middle
Italy of about 400-300 B.C., in days that are only half historic, and
thus help to fill the gap between the Terremare and the fully
developed system of the Roman Imperial period.

[50] Livy ii. 34, contradicted, however, by xxvii. 10 and by
Dionysius Halic. vii. 13 _ad fin_.

[51] _Notizie degli Scavi_, 191, p. 558, 1903, p. 261; Frothingham,
_Roman Cities_, plate ix. I am indebted to Dr. T. Ashby, Director
of the British School at Rome, for information as to the site.
Excavations made in 1823 at the Roman Falerii (founded 241 B.C.)
show streets crossing at right angles, but the piece unearthed
was small and the date uncertain (Canina, _Etruria Maritima_ i,
plate ix).

It may be permitted in this context to add a plan of a north Italian
city, in which some of the modern streets recall one quarter of
Pompeii (fig. 14). Modena, the Roman Mutina, was founded as a
'colonia' with 2,000 male settlers in 183 B.C., and despite various
misfortunes became one of the chief towns in the Lombard plain. One
part of this town shows a row of long narrow blocks measuring about 20