[Boreas]

Boreas, I was suprised to find that my mtDNA is haplpgroup 'V'

Yes, I noticed that in some of your posts, and I've kept an eye out for more examples, but you are indeed cool. Perhaps your people moved further north during a warming, or maybe they were trapped there for a while, etc. If I find something I'll let you know.

My dad's mother, Mrs Smith, is related to...

My paternal side is from Somerset, not far from Cheddar, so I was half expecting U5a, but it came back Anglo-Saxon or Viking. Next I'll be doing my father's mother's side. They came from Devon.

This whole field is really progressing quickly, so I think that in a few years (with all the new markers being found) a lot more refinement will be possible.

[blam]

I read somewhere that the U5a's in Scotland and Finland were so closely related that they must have been connected prior to the rise of the oceans at the end of the Ice Age that seperated them. Article here.

I think the 'V's' and U5a's followed the decline of the glaciers north as they melted.

BTW, there is a 23,000 year old Cheddar Man too but I don't know anything about him. Oppenheimer mentions him in his book, Origins Of The British which you'd like.