(OFFTOPIC about body size)

[MOESAN]

OK Eldritch
just some detail, in 1930 the 1m74 in Britain were in some restricted regions but as a whole the mean was a respectable 1m71 -not very different from the Netherland that had too some regionale differences...
there were social differences of stature (gentry about 1m72, convicts abourt 1m66 or 1m67, a lot of industrial regions: 1m69 (but more than 1m72 in N and E 'germanic' regions of England, industrial or not) -
sure a good example for sociologists putting all these differences on the count of social distinct ways of life - but segregation played a role too, because the worker classes in some regions were where we found more colonized Celts and pre-Celts, and the gentry was where we found the most of Saxons descendants mixed with a few "Normans" - always the same mixture of different categories of causes, asking for more serious and less political (sometimes pre-judged) studies

 

[Jackson]

OK Eldritch
just some detail, in 1930 the 1m74 in Britain were in some restricted regions but as a whole the mean was a respectable 1m71 -not very different from the Netherland that had too some regionale differences...
there were social differences of stature (gentry about 1m72, convicts abourt 1m66 or 1m67, a lot of industrial regions: 1m69 (but more than 1m72 in N and E 'germanic' regions of England, industrial or not) -
sure a good example for sociologists putting all these differences on the count of social distinct ways of life - but segregation played a role too, because the worker classes in some regions were where we found more colonized Celts and pre-Celts, and the gentry was where we found the most of Saxons descendants mixed with a few "Normans" - always the same mixture of different categories of causes, asking for more serious and less political (sometimes pre-judged) studies

It's interesting that apparently during and after the migration era at least, the Romano Britons were on average shorter than the Saxons. I'll see if i can find more details on it too. Also the 'English feet' have much more steep toes (is in the front end of the foot is more steep along the line of the toes, while it is much more even in Welsh, Scottish, Irish people) and the smaller toes are often curled in to some degree, apparently due to the muscle attachments or something.

 

[Cambrius (The Red)]

Fascinating stuff. I don't think the Romans had much genetic impact in Britain / Ire.