Ancient population · Iron Age

Orkney (Iron Age, Scotland)

Name: Orkney (Iron Age, Scotland) (Scotland_Orkney_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Scotland_Orkney_IA

Orkney (Iron Age, Scotland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_Orkney_IA), with 2 samples from United Kingdom, dated to c. 110 BCE – 120 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to England (Early Medieval), England (Late Iron Age) and Schleswig Saxon LMedieval (Medieval, Germany); the nearest living populations are Scottish, Dutch and Norwegian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroup is H1b (2).

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 110 BCE – 120 CE
Country: United Kingdom
Sampled near: Knowe of Skea 59.16, -2.88
Samples: 2
Published in: DuliasRichardsPNAS2022
Catalogue: Scotland_Orkney_IA.SG variant

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
#	Population	Distance
1	England (Early Medieval)`England_EarlyMedieval`	2.41
2	England (Late Iron Age)`England_LIA`	2.51
3	Schleswig Saxon LMedieval (Medieval, Germany)`Germany_Schleswig_Saxon_LMedieval`	2.53
4	Groningen Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands)`Netherlands_Groningen_Saxon_Medieval`	2.56
5	Early Modern (Faroes)`Faroes_EarlyModern`	2.62
6	Netherlands (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)`Netherlands_MIA_LIA`	2.62
7	Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)`Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman`	2.65
8	Saxon (Medieval, England)`England_Saxon`	2.65
9	Sealand VA (Medieval)`Sealand_VA`	2.65
10	Langobard (Medieval, Hungary)`Hungary_Langobard`	2.68

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Scottish`Scottish`	2.61
2	Dutch`Dutch`	2.67
3	Norwegian`Norwegian`	2.74
4	English`English`	2.74
5	Welsh`Welsh`	2.77
6	Danish`Danish`	2.80
7	Orcadian`Orcadian`	2.82
8	Irish`Irish`	2.86
9	English Cornwall`English_Cornwall`	2.87
10	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	2.99

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a R-L51
R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a2 R-DF1

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

H1b 2

Individuals 2

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`KD004.SG`	M	340 calBCE - 4 calCE	Knowe of Skea	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a2 R-DF1	H1b
`KD043.SG`	M	25-215 calCE	Knowe of Skea	R1b1a1b1a R-L51	H1b