Oh well, Bob comes from the antipodes, which is rather remote from North
Britain. Anyway the Scots and the "Northern English" are North British, so
Picts, Scots, Gwyddels, Romano-British, or whatever, we are all North
British!
"allan connochie" <allan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "hawker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "allan connochie" <allan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > "Bob and Doris Jones" <bobianjones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> hawker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >>
>> >> > ... 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.
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>
> cheers
>
> Allan
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