| A recent University College of London DNA study showing that Frisian and English Y-chromosomes are identical reveals how archaeological artifacts can prove that there was a mass migration of people. In Anglo-Saxon Pottery, J. N. L. Myres writes about the significance of this artifactual evidence: "Even if Bede had never written what he did, it would have been abundantly clear from their pottery that the bulk of the settlers must have come from precisely the regions to which pointed as their homes.......many folk of Angle, Saxon and mixed origin pressing south and west towards the Rhine mouths used the Frisian coast as a convenient springboard for their attacks on Britain. The presence of such intruders everywhere in the Frisian settlements is clear enough from the ceramic evidence, and has given rise to the use of the term Anglo-Frisian for a whole range of pottery forms decorated in simplified linear styles of ultimate Anglian or East Holstein origin that are found indifferently in Frisia and eastern England." The map that Mr. Myres created (shown below) indicates that migrants from Denmark settled in Frisia as well as in England in the fifth century. Myres reiterates the fact that there was a "continuous southward pressure of the Angles and other northern peoples towards the Elbe. This led, as we have seen, to the hybrid culture of the Mischgruppe which itself spread westwards into Friesland......There is indeed plenty of pure Angle and Anglo-Frisian pottery in Yorkshire, Linconshire, and East Anglia, which could well be the direct consequence of a fresh reinforcement to the northern settlers from the continental Angles at this time." Previous Page |
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| Anglo-Frisian Pottery in England and Frisia |