Editing St Albans (section)

=== Iron Age ===
There was an [[Iron Age]] settlement known as<ref name=niblett>Rosalind Niblett, ''Roman Hertfordshire'', Wimborne: Dovecote Press, 1995</ref> [[Verlamion]], or Verlamio, near the site of the present city, the centre of [[Tasciovanus]]' power and a major centre of the [[Catuvellauni]] from about 20 BC until shortly after the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] invasion of AD 43.<ref>John Wacher, 1976, ''The Towns of Roman Britain'', p. 202, both for Tasciovanus and the Catuvellauni.</ref> The name "Verlamion" is Celtic, meaning "settlement over or by the marsh".<ref name=niblett/> The town was on Prae Hill, {{cvt|2|km}} to the west of modern St Albans, now covered by the village of St Michael's, [[Verulamium Park]] and the [[Gorhambury]] Estate.<ref name=niblett/> Although excavations done in 1996 produced finds which include silver coins from the Roman Republic era dating from 90/80 BC.  There was evidence of trade with the republic and that a settlement already existed on the site 50 years before Julius Caesar attempted to invade Britain.  However, it is believed that the tribal capital was moved to the site by Tasciovanus (around 25 to 5&nbsp;BC). [[Cunobelinus]] may have constructed [[Beech Bottom Dyke]], a defensive earthwork near the settlement whose significance is uncertain.