DNA records reveal mass migration from Europe into Anglo-Saxon Britain

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More than 75% of the ancestry of people in parts of England was from recent north European migrants.

An ongoing debate about how much migration happened in Anglo-Saxon times may be settled by the finding that people buried in the UK and mainland Europe during this time period had the same genetic makeup.

There was an influx of Europeans into Britain from the end of the Roman Empire at about AD 400 until 1066.

There has been debate over the number of people who have migrated.

There could have been a small group of migrants who spread aspects of their culture. Robin Fleming is a historian at Boston College in Massachusetts.

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Some of the people who were buried in the graves between AD 200 and 1300 were from England.

The 7th century AD showed that 76 percent of the ancestry of people buried in the east of England was from Germany, the Netherlands, and the Danes.

It would be equivalent to someone having three of their grandparents born in Europe.

The bodies taken from graves further to the west of England had a lower proportion of their European ancestry.

There was mass migration from Europe into Britain, according to the findings. A lot of us have been searching for this.

The idea of migration is brought back onto the table by this.

The journal's title is " Nature."