“Conquest Man” — The 1,000-Year-Old Man Buried At St Peter’s Church In Barton-upon-Humber, England, Whose Face Scientists Reconstructed In 2026
Coffined burial was more elaborate and more expensive than simple shroud burial in the earth, the most common form of Christian burial in this period.
An oak coffin required timber, carpentry, and the resources to commission both.
It was not a luxury, exactly, but it was a statement of some kind.
The dendrochronology, the dating of the oak by analyzing its growth rings, placed the tree’s felling around 1079.
This is one of the most precise dating tools available for archaeological finds involving wood, and it gives a confident placement for Conquest Man’s burial in the early years of Norman rule, approximately thirteen years after Hastings.
The grass pillow is an unusual detail.
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