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Old 17-01-2018, 22:19   #24
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Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry

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Originally Posted by BenMcr View Post
My point was that even the Celts came from somewhere else, even if they have been on the Islands longer than the Anglo-Saxons.

Considering most of the British Isles were under miles of ice at one point, everyone here will have ancestors who came from somewhere else. No-one will be 'native' to the UK.

The current thinking is that any populations that were around after the Ice Age were replaced by the 'Beaker people' who were migrants (or invaders) from Europe:

https://www.nature.com/news/ancient-...ritain-1.21996
Anglo-Saxon is not an undesirable heritage, interlopers have always been tolerated by we British
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