Ancient population · Antiquity

Roman (Antiquity, England)

England_Roman

Roman (Antiquity, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_Roman), with 7 samples from Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom, dated to about 200 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Halberstadt (Late Bronze Age, Germany), Czech (Early–Middle Bronze Age) and EMedieval Alemanic (Medieval, Germany); the nearest living populations are Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (6); its mtDNA haplogroups include H6a (2), H, H1bs and J1b.

Period
Antiquity
Date
about 200 CE
Origin
Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom
Sampled near
Driffield Terrace 53.96, -1.08
Samples
7
Catalogue
England_Roman

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Halberstadt (Late Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_LBA_Halberstadt2.55
2Czech (Early–Middle Bronze Age)Czech_EMBA2.76
3EMedieval Alemanic (Medieval, Germany)Germany_EMedieval_Alemanic3.14
4Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_MBA3.22
5Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, France)France_BellBeaker3.22
6Alemannic (Medieval)MA_Alemannic3.27
7Viking (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Viking3.27
8Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)Scotland_MBA3.30
9East Yorkshire (Iron Age, England)England_EastYorkshire_IA3.31
10Alberstedt (Late Neolithic, Germany)Germany_LN_Alberstedt3.33
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1DutchDutch4.03
2NorwegianNorwegian4.12
3DanishDanish4.15
4IrishIrish4.29
5WelshWelsh4.30
6ShetlandicShetlandic4.31
7French BrittanyFrench_Brittany4.33
8AfrikanerAfrikaner4.33
9German HamburgGerman_Hamburg4.39
10SwedishSwedish4.40

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

6 men with a call

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 7

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
3DT16M50-350 CEDriffield TerraceR1b1a1b1a1a1c1a2a R-A11475H6a1a
6DT18M50-350 CEDriffield TerraceR1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1i R-FGC9660H1bs
6DT21M50-350 CEDriffield TerraceR1b1a1b1a1a2c1a6 R-FTC38108J1c3e2
6DT22M50-350 CEDriffield TerraceR1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2H
6DT23M50-350 CEDriffield TerraceR1b1a1b1a1a2e1 R-Y6237H6a1b2
6DT3M50-350 CEDriffield TerraceR1b1a1b1a1a1c1a1 R-FGC14814J1b1a1
S14491200 CEYorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom