It is unclear whether they were native Britons, Angles, or Saxons. Mortimer Wheeler noted the absence of Anglo-Saxon evidence from the Chilterns and suggested the area was a British enclave into the 6th Century, possibly the remnants of a Sub-Roman polity encompassing an area that included London, Colchester, and St Albans.cited in Ken Dark, 2000, Britain and the End of the Roman Empire, p. 97. Earlier, J. Brownbill had suggested they were one branch of the West Saxons.J. Brownbill, 1912, "The Tribal Hidage," in The English Historical Review, vol. 27, p. 640.
