English and Welsh are races apart
Sunday, 30 June, 2002, 15:31 GMT 16:31 UK
Map of England and Wales reflected in genes
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Gene scientists claim to have found proof
that the Welsh are the “true” Britons.
The research supports the idea that Celtic Britain underwent a form of ethnic cleansing by Anglo-Saxons invaders following the Roman withdrawal in the fifth century.
Genetic tests BBC
Genetic tests show clear differences between the Welsh and English.
It suggests that between 50% and 100% of the indigenous population of what was to become England was wiped out, with Offa’s Dyke acting as a “genetic barrier” protecting those on the Welsh side.
And the upheaval can be traced to this day through genetic differences between the English and the Welsh.
Academics at University College in London comparing a sample of men from the UK with those from an area of the Netherlands where the Anglo-Saxons are thought to have originated found the English subjects had genes that were almost identical.
But there were clear differences between the genetic make-up of Welsh people studied.
The research team studied the Y-chromosome, which is passed almost unchanged from father to son, and looked for certain genetic markers.
Ethnic links: Many races share common bonds
They chose seven market towns mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and studied 313 male volunteers whose paternal grandfather had also lived in the area.
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They then compared this with samples from Norway and with Friesland, now a northern province of the Netherlands.
The English and Frisians studied had almost identical genetic make-up but the English and Welsh were very different.
The researchers concluded the most likely explanation for this was a large-scale Anglo-Saxon invasion, which devastated the Celtic population of England, but did not reach Wales.
Dr Mark Thomas, of the Centre for Genetic Anthropology at UCL, said their findings suggested that a migration occurred within the last 2,500 years.
Genetic links
It reinforced the idea that the Welsh were the true indigenous Britons.
In April last year, research for a BBC programme on the Vikings revealed strong genetic links between the Welsh and Irish Celts and the Basques of northern Spain and south France.
It suggested a possible link between the Celts and Basques, dating back tens of thousands of years.
The UCL research into the more recent Anglo-Saxon period suggested a migration on a huge scale.
“It appears England is made up of an ethnic cleansing event from people coming across from the continent after the Romans left,” he said.
Celtic Britons
Archaeologists after the Second World War rejected the traditionally held view that an Anglo-Saxon invasion pushed the indigenous Celtic Britons to the fringes of Britain.
Instead, they said the arrival of Anglo-Saxon culture could have come from trade or a small ruling elite.
But the latest research by the UCL team, “using genetics as a history book”, appears to support the original view of a large-scale invasion of England.
It suggests that the Welsh border was more of a genetic barrier to the Anglo-Saxon Y chromosome gene flow than the North Sea.
Dr Thomas added: “Our findings completely overturn the modern view of the origins of the English.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/wales/2076470.stm
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I am a French citizen, but especially a Breton of Brittany. I know very well the history of my people and Great Britain in the Celtic period.
What I read on this article is totally false and depressing, which misses opaqueness on behalf of BBC. The colonization of the British iles was made with majority by the Celts but which didn’t have the same DNA, the West of England was colonized by Celts come from the Atlantic Coasts, and the East by Celts coming from Netherlands and from Belgium. It is thus normal to obtain genetic resemblances today between Dutch and east English. This observation has nothing to do with the Saxon phenomenon, the Celtic gene does not exist, the Celtic civilization was united by the faiths, the language, the traditions and not by the blood.
Daniel, i would love to visit Brittany, which I believe is one of the seven Celtic nations, which in alphabetical order are : Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, Man, Scotland, Vortigerns nation, Wales.
I think the language, religion, and worldly character of the Anglo-Saxons who invaded Afghani… sorry, invaded Vortigern’s kingdom are so different to the mystical unorganizable Celts that they really cannot be considered to be of the same culture at all.