by "allan connochie" <allan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Sep 19, 2005 at 11:34 PM
"hawker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "allan connochie" <allan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Bob and Doris Jones" <bobianjones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > news:s3LWe.49548$FA3.41768@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> hawker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >>
> >> > ... I am publi****ng it as I go along so there will be a need for
> >> > constant updates.
> > IMHO the huge percentage of red-haired people
> >> in Brigantia is a direct genetic legacy of the Picts (the highest
> >> percentage of anywhere in the world).
>
>
> Allan, whoever published this article was greatly mistaken. In fact
there
is
> an undeniable Gwyddelic contribution to the gene pool in Brigantia.
Gwyddel
> not in the sense of Irish, but in the sense of the pre-Beaker people
> population of Neolythic farmers. The Gwyddels were almost as old as the
> Picts and the Iberians, but they were neither Picts nor Iberians.The so
> called "red haired" people is an old "red herring" that goes back to the
> 18th. century antiquarians.It is just rubbish.There is no evidence of a
> Pictish population outside Scotland.
Quite so. I agree with you. That's exactly what I've been saying. It was
Bob who posted the above not me.
cheers
Allan
