Editing St Albans (section)

===Anglo-Saxon===
After the Roman withdrawal the town became the centre of the territory or ''[[Regiones|regio]]'' of the [[Anglo-Saxon]] ''[[Waeclingas]]'' tribe.<ref>{{cite book|last=Williamson|first=Tom|title=The Origins of Hertfordshire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L87sjkrXr60C&pg=PA64|access-date=2014-09-13|year=2000|publisher=Manchester University Press|location=Manchester|isbn=071904491X|page=64 }}</ref>

[[St Albans Cathedral|St Albans Abbey]] and the associated [[Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain|Anglo-Saxon]] settlement were founded on the hill outside the Roman city where it was believed St Alban was buried. An archaeological excavation in 1978, directed by [[Martin Biddle]], failed to find Roman remains on the site of the medieval [[chapter house]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stalbanscathedral.org/history/chapter-house/history |title=Chapter House History – The Cathedral and Abbey Church of Saint Alban |publisher=Stalbanscathedral.org |access-date=2013-11-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113154308/http://www.stalbanscathedral.org/history/chapter-house/history |archive-date=13 November 2013 }}</ref> As late as the eighth century the Saxon inhabitants of St Albans nearby were aware of their ancient neighbour, which they knew alternatively as Verulamacæstir or, under what [[H. R. Loyn]] terms "their own hybrid", Vaeclingscæstir, "the fortress of the followers of Wæcla", possibly a pocket of British-speakers remaining separate in an increasingly Saxonised area.<ref>Loyn, ''Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest'', 2nd ed. 1991:11.</ref>