The results generated by the two different approaches for ancestral assessment were for the most part in accord.

it was the cranial vault rather than the facial characteristics that caused the discrepancy and this probably reflects a degree of intrapopulation variation, overlap, and genetic admixture

may have originated from groups not represented in the dataset.

In the European groups, the crania showed the greatest affinity with the Northern European and American White reference samples.

For the African groups, the crania demonstrated the greatest resemblance to the American Black reference samples of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, perhaps reflecting a similar degree of genetic admixture in these populations.

What is also clear is that both males and females with affinities to African groups appear in both the high status Railway site and at Trentholme Drive.