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   From: john@cartmell.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <44c79969@news.greennet.net>, allan connochie   
    wrote:   
   > They assume that at one point the people in Britain and Ireland were a   
   > pretty much homogenous lot as far as Y chromosomes go and that the changes   
   > have occurred since the sub-Roman period.   
      
   That assumption is unwarranted. I don't know about the area in question but in   
   Lancashire (an example I know a little about) there were up to 10 to 50   
   thousand Sarmatians (5,500 cavalry + families) dumped there in 175 CE and   
   descendants still there as a recognisable group in 425 CE. That has to have an   
   effect on the homogenuity.   
      
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