Ancient population · Medieval

Saxon (Medieval, England)

England_Saxon

Saxon (Medieval, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_Saxon), with 38 samples from East of England, United Kingdom, dated to about 780 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Saxon (Early Medieval, England), Groningen Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands) and England (Early Medieval); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Icelandic and Danish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (12), I1 (6) and I1a (3); its mtDNA haplogroup is H1a.

Period
Medieval
Date
about 780 CE
Origin
East of England, United Kingdom
Sampled near
Hatherdene 52.27, 0.29
Sites
Hatherdene (12)
Oakington (7)
Ely (6)
Sedgeford (6)
Eastry (3)
and 2 more
Samples
38
Catalogue
England_Saxon
England_Saxon.SG variant
England_Saxon_oAfrica.SG outliers
England_Saxon_oIran.SG outliers

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
1Saxon (Early Medieval, England)England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon0.57
2Groningen Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands)Netherlands_Groningen_Saxon_Medieval0.87
3England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval1.16
4Pre Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Pre_Christian1.17
5Early Modern (Faroes)Faroes_EarlyModern1.18
6EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM1.24
7Greenland E VA (Medieval)GreenlandE_VA1.30
8Viking (Medieval, England)England_Viking1.32
9Viking (Medieval, Iceland)Iceland_Viking1.33
10Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_EarlyViking1.36
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1NorwegianNorwegian0.86
2IcelandicIcelandic0.97
3DanishDanish0.97
4ScottishScottish1.50
5IrishIrish1.55
6OrcadianOrcadian1.60
7DutchDutch1.78
8EnglishEnglish1.82
9ShetlandicShetlandic1.85
10WelshWelsh1.91

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

21 men with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 40

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

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
EAS001.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CEEastry
EAS002.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CEEastry
EAS004.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEEastryR1b1a1b R-M269
ELY001.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CEEly
ELY002.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CEEly
ELY003.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEElyI1 I-DF29
ELY004.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEElyI1 I1
ELY005.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEElyR1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-DF13
ELY006.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CEEly
HAD001.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEHatherdeneI1a2a1a1a5 I-Y6231
HAD002.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CEHatherdene
HAD003.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEHatherdeneR1b1a1b1a1a1b1b R-DF95
HAD004.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CEHatherdene
HAD005.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEHatherdeneR1b1a1b1a1a1b1b R-Y15995
HAD006.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEHatherdeneR1b1a1b1a1a1c2b2b1a1a R-S1734
HAD007.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CEHatherdene
HAD008.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CEHatherdene
HAD010.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CEHatherdene
HAD011England_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEHatherdeneR1b1a1b1a1a R-L151
HAD013.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CEHatherdene
HAD015.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEHatherdeneI1 I-A12774
NO3423England_SaxonM600-900 CENorton East Mill/Bishops MillI1 I-L121H1a
OAI001.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEOakingtonR1b1a1b1a1a1c2b2b1a1a R-BY3730
OAI002.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEOakingtonR1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-Y177968
OAI003.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-600 CEOakington
OAI004.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-600 CEOakington
OAI005.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEOakingtonI1a2a2a I-FGC69701
OAI006.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEOakingtonR1b1a1b1a1a1c2b3a R-A762
OAI007.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-600 CEOakington
POH001.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEPolhillI1a2a1a1a I-Z141
POH002.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CEPolhill
POH006.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CEPolhillR1b1a1 R-P297
SED003.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CESedgefordR1b1a1b1a1a2
SED005.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CESedgefordR1b1a1b1a1a R-BY50725
SED008.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CESedgeford
SED009.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CESedgefordI1
SED010.SGEngland_Saxon.SGF400-1100 CESedgeford
SED017.SGEngland_Saxon.SGM400-1100 CESedgefordI1
EAS003.SG outlierEngland_Saxon_oAfrica.SGF400-1100 CEEastry
SED016.SG outlierEngland_Saxon_oIran.SGF400-1100 CESedgeford