The man who looked out from that face looked across the Humber.

He saw the estuary that had shaped his community and possibly brought his ancestors to this location.

He saw a landscape in transition, as England was in transition, from one world to another.

We can see his face.

We cannot know what he saw, or what he thought when he looked.

That unknowability is the final honesty of what the science has achieved.

What Comes Next