Editing Old Sarum (section)

=== Roman period ===
At the time of the [[Roman conquest of Britain]] in the 1st century, the area of Old Sarum seems to have formed part of the territory of the [[Atrebates]],<ref name=sub>{{cite web |url=http://www.stratfordsubcastle.org.uk/new/node/118 |title=Roman Sorbiodunum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102162242/http://www.stratfordsubcastle.org.uk/new/node/118 |archive-date=2015-01-02 |website=Stratford Sub Castle |place=Salisbury, GB |year=2014 |access-date=2 Jan 2015}}</ref> a [[Britons (Celtic people)|British]] [[list of Celtic tribes|tribe]] apparently ruled by [[Gauls|Gaulish]] exiles. Although the dynasty's founder [[Commius]] had become a foe of [[Caesar]]'s, his sons submitted to [[Augustus]] as [[Roman client kingdoms in Britain|client kings]]. Their realm became known as the [[Regni]] and the overthrow of one of them, [[Verica]], was the [[casus belli]] used to justify the [[list of Roman emperors|Emperor]] [[Claudius]]'s invasion. The settlement appeared in the [[medieval Welsh literature|Welsh]] ''[[Chronicle of the Britons]]'' as {{nowrap|[[Caer]]-Caradog}}<ref name=Roberts-1811/>{{rp|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Mso_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA135 135]}} or Gradawc ({{langx|owl|kaer gradaỽc}}<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk/en/ms-page.php?ms=Jesus111&page=147r&l=c600l38 |title=Oxford Jesus College MS.&nbsp;111 (The Red Book of Hergest) |at=p.&nbsp;147r, col.&nbsp;600 |quote=Trioedd Ynys Prydain, Cas Bethau, Enwau ac Anrhyfeddodau Ynys Prydain |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924090910/http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk/en/ms-page.php?ms=Jesus111&page=147r&l=c600l38 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |publisher=University of Cardiff |place=Cardiff, Wales |year=2014 <!--|series=Welsh Prose 1300–1425--> |series=(in Old Welsh) <!--|lang=Old Welsh NB no language code support, in Mediawiki, causes a CS1 error, but there is no solution.--><!--Well, I used |series= which has the same result, which is what matters. -->}}</ref>) and as Caer-Wallawg.<ref name=Roberts-1811>{{cite book |last=Roberts |first=Peter |year=1811 |title=The Chronicle of the Kings of Britain |quote={{sc|subtitle}}: Translated from the Welsh Copy Attributed to Tysilio; Collated with Several Other Copies, and Illustrated with Copious Notes; to Which Are Added, Original Dissertations. |publisher=E.&nbsp;Williams |place=London, GB}}</ref>{{rp|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Mso_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA150 150–151]}} [[Bishop Ussher]] argued for its identification with the {{nowrap|"[[caer|Cair]] Caratauc"}}<ref>{{Cite book |author=(([[Nennius]] ({{Abbr|attrib.|Traditional attribution}}))) |title=[[s:la:Historia Brittonum#VI. CIVITATES BRITANNIAE|Historia Brittonum, VI.]] |year=1900 |orig-year=composed after 830&nbsp;AD |editor-link=Theodor Mommsen |editor=Mommsen, T. |lang=la |via=[[s:la:Main Page|Latin Wikisource]]}}</ref> listed among the [[28 Cities of Britain|28 cities of Britain]] by the ''[[History of the Britons]]'' traditionally ascribed to [[Nennius]].<ref name=shusher>{{cite book |last1=Newman |first1=John Henry |display-authors=etal |url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Lives-of-the-English-Saints-St-Gilbert-Prior-of-Sempringham-Volume-3/527392/459 |series=Lives of the English Saints |title=St. German, Bishop of Auxerre |at=Ch.&nbsp;X: "Britain in 429, A.&nbsp;D.",<!--sic--> p.&nbsp;92 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321234154/http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Lives-of-the-English-Saints-St-Gilbert-Prior-of-Sempringham-Volume-3/527392/459 |archive-date=2016-03-21 |publisher=James Toovey |place=London, GB |year=1844}}</ref>