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"It seems so unlikely to find a genetic line of hardy inhabitants surviving right there where they've always been. Really puts a *face* on pre-historic history."

This is an amazing story.

And my ex-wife complained that I never wanted to go anywhere.
Mr Targett hasn't ventured more that a mile from his 9,000 year old family homestead.

Professor Stephen Oppenheimer in his book Origins Of The British has found that the DNA of the UK is very old and little changed since the end of the Ice Age.

My yDNA is R1b (DYS390-23) which indicates my male ancestors were Danes who went to Ireland and stayed...maybe as a Viking?

[MissCalico]

And my ex-wife complained that I never wanted to go anywhere. Mr Targett hasn't ventured more that a mile from his 9,000 year old family homestead.

Lol . . . I can almost imagine all your thousands of great-Grannies over the millennia yelling at their hubbies that they never take them out of Cheddar. Stonehenge should have been a short trip and it did have wooden post structures at about that time.