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Originally Posted by MargaretR
You forgot to mention-
the beaker people (earliest known inhabitants identified by their pottery)
the celts (a gradual migration across the whole of Europe)
the 'roman auxiliaries' who were born in all the conquered nations of the empire
(few roman born romans actually stayed when the empire collapsed)
the angles
the saxons
the jutes
...to name only the ones before the Norman conquest
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I vaguely remember a show on the History Chanel, on which the arguement was made ... I think DNA analysis had something to do with it ... that rather than being predominantly Anglo Saxon, Britons were in fact Celtic ...
Is this so? I haven't done the research that you have; so, I may be way off base.