British Isles Index
- Shared DNA segments50%
- Ancestry-composition distance31.3%
- Best-fit population model18.8%
One similarity score built from three kinds of evidence, with every component shown in the report.
From standing stones to medieval shores
Compare your DNA with ancient individuals from Britain and Ireland across Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bell Beaker, Iron Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and medieval contexts. Genetic similarity does not prove direct descent.
Long before Rome, before the Vikings, before the written word reached these shores— humans had already called this land home for millennia.
The first inhabitants were Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, following herds across the land bridge from continental Europe, leaving their genetic mark on the earliest inhabitants of Britain and Ireland. They were joined by Neolithic farmers who brought agriculture and megalithic traditions, building Stonehenge and the passage tombs of Newgrange.
Then came the Bell Beaker people—master metallurgists and traders who spread their distinctive pottery and bronze-working techniques across Europe. The Bronze Age brought new settlers who dramatically reshaped the genetic landscape of the British Isles.
The Iron Age saw the rise of Celtic cultures across England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Rome would eventually claim southern Britain, but the ancient blood remained. After Rome's withdrawal, Anglo-Saxon and Viking settlers left their mark from Orkney to Dublin—their DNA still detectable in many British and Irish people today.
"The stones remember. The blood remembers. The story continues in you."
Hunter-gatherers who first crossed the land bridge and shaped the earliest British identity.
Farmers who built Stonehenge and the passage tombs of Ireland.
Master traders and metallurgists who reshaped the genetic landscape.
Bronze-working settlers who brought new technologies and ancestry.
Celtic cultures flourishing across England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
Roman Britain, Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Viking Age, and medieval populations.
This is not a list of percentages. This is a journey into the ancient stories your DNA connects to.
We scan your autosomal DNA in short segments and compare each one against every ancient British Isles genome using identical-by-state (IBS) segment matching, weighting longer, rarer shared segments more heavily.
A panel-specific 0-100 statistical similarity score weighting shared-segment evidence at 50%, ADMIXTURE distance at 31.25%, and Monte Carlo fit at 18.75%. It is not an ancestry percentage or proof of direct descent.
The fixed regional ADMIXTURE reference panel defines stable PCA axes; your kit is projected afterward without moving the reference samples.
See the exact archaeological sites where your genetic kin lived and died. Not abstract regions—real places across England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
Your genetic affinity to each British Isles era—Mesolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Medieval—all quantified.
Meet the ancient individual whose DNA resonates most strongly with yours. Learn their story, their time, their place in British Isles history.
Our AI assistant provides personalized explanations of your results, placing your genetic story in historical and archaeological context.
Discover connections to specific regions of the British Isles—England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the surrounding islands.
Find ancient British Isles reference individuals who fall on the same mtDNA maternal or Y-DNA paternal lineage branch as you, a shared branch rather than a named common ancestor.
Understand whether your roots trace to pre-Celtic inhabitants, Steppe migrants, Anglo-Saxon settlers, or Viking heritage.
Connect with famous sites like Stonehenge, Newgrange, Orkney, and the burial mounds of Britain and Ireland where your matches were found.
Your report includes an interactive map showing the exact archaeological sites across England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales where your genetic matches were discovered.
Explore the map preview below, or search the complete reference panel in the table. Genetic similarity to these individuals does not mean they are your real ancestors.
Map preview This map shows a preview of 150 of 1236 reference individuals used in this report. Search the complete list in the table below.
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This portrait is an AI-generated speculative reconstruction and may be historically or biologically inaccurate. It is not a photograph of the individual.
These portraits are AI-generated artistic interpretations, not photographs. The archaeological samples behind them are real, recovered from British Isles burial sites, their DNA preserved across millennia.
4226.0 BCE - 3961.0 BCE
3339.0 BCE - 3028.0 BCE
3662.0 BCE - 3494.0 BCE
2199.0 BCE - 2032.0 BCE
2031.0 BCE - 1830.0 BCE
56.0 BCE - 124.0 CE
Ancient DNA, modern analysis. Advanced algorithms, transparent results.
We scan your autosomal DNA in short segments and compare each one against every ancient British Isles genome using identical-by-state (IBS) segment matching, weighting longer, rarer shared segments more heavily.
Advanced ADMIXTURE algorithms compare your genetic profile against reference populations across ancestral components, providing superior resolution for British Isles genetic similarity analysis with precision and accuracy.
The fixed regional ADMIXTURE reference panel defines stable PCA axes; your kit is projected afterward without moving the reference samples.
Your British Isles Index is a panel-specific statistical similarity score weighting shared-segment evidence at 50%, ADMIXTURE distance at 31.25%, and Monte Carlo fit at 18.75%. It is not an ancestry percentage or proof of direct descent.
Our British Isles reference panel includes samples from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales spanning 10,000+ years, from Mesolithic caves to medieval cemeteries.
All ancient DNA samples come from peer-reviewed academic publications, with full citations and links provided in your report. Science you can trust.
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See what awaits you in your personalized Ancient British Isles Heritage report. The figures below are illustrative examples, not a real user's results.
View Sample ReportOne similarity score built from three kinds of evidence, with every component shown in the report.
Similarity to reference individuals from each era, from earliest to latest.
Ancient individuals on the same maternal or paternal lineage branch, each labelled by the kind of evidence linking them to you.
Notable sites where reference samples were excavated, with historical context and periods of use.
Reference-fixed PCA chart: the British Isles reference panel defines the axes, and your sample is projected onto them.
All figures above are illustrative example values, not your results. Every report also includes print, CSV export and a shareable summary card.
Some stories are inherited. Others are remembered. Yours is waiting in the ancient stones of the British Isles.
The blood remembers. The stones remember. Now, so will you.
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