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		clock_tower on Aug 4, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Roman Britain in Black and White Maybe in Wales? Modern England (and most of modern Scotland) is mostly Anglo-Saxon, not Romano-British.

jasonwatkinspdx on Aug 5, 2017 | [–]

There is genetic evidence of people from the Balkans migrating to Wales during the Roman era: https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/molb...

barry-cotter on Aug 5, 2017 | [–]

That's not true. East Anglia, the region with the most Germanic ancestry, is only ~30%.

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