Ancient population · Iron Age

Skye (Iron Age, Scotland)

Scotland_Skye_IA

Skye (Iron Age, Scotland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_Skye_IA), with 1 sample from United Kingdom, dated to c. 110 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Veterov 2 (Bronze Age, Czech), Scotland (Early Iron Age) and Hiddestorf Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Norwegian and Icelandic.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is H7a.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 110 CE
Sampled near
High Pasture Cave 57.21, -6.11
Samples
1
Catalogue
Scotland_Skye_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
#PopulationDistance
1Veterov 2 (Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_BA_Veterov_23.49
2Scotland (Early Iron Age)Scotland_EIA3.52
3Hiddestorf Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany)Germany_Hiddestorf_Saxon_EMedieval3.53
4Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)Scotland_MIA_LIA3.54
5England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA3.58
6England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA3.62
7Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_BellBeaker3.63
8Ireland (Bronze Age)IRL_BA3.63
9Low EEF (Late Bronze Age, England)England_LBA_lowEEF3.71
10Low EEF (Middle Iron Age, England)England_MIA_lowEEF3.71
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Czech ModernCzech_Modern3.44
2NorwegianNorwegian3.83
3IcelandicIcelandic3.89
4IrishIrish3.91
5ShetlandicShetlandic3.92
6DanishDanish4.15
7ScottishScottish4.20
8SwedishSwedish4.21
9OrcadianOrcadian4.22
10WelshWelsh4.50

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 1

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
KD005.SGF25-205 calCEHigh Pasture CaveH7a1b