Haplogroup U8

mtDNA (maternal line) · one of the U lineages

In the ancient British record

Frequency of U8 among ancient samples from Britain & Ireland, by period — from our aggregation of the CC0 Allen Ancient DNA Resource. See the full chart.

Bronze Age 1%
Early Medieval 1%
Neolithic 4%

For a fuller account, search “Haplogroup U8” in a reference such as Wikipedia or ISOGG.

Remember: a haplogroup is a deep, broad lineage shared by many people — not an ethnicity, a nationality or a clan. See what DNA can and can’t tell you.

Sources

[isogg] International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG), Y-DNA Haplogroup Tree. Reference — cite for haplogroup nomenclature only (not frequencies) · link