They built a container for him.

They provided him with objects that, in the traditions they maintained, were appropriate to accompany the dead.

They buried him in a position that would have been associated, in the context of the church, with some degree of significance.

The community that made those decisions has been dead for nearly a thousand years.

The church they buried him in is still standing.

The man they buried can now be seen, through a reconstruction built from the evidence that survived.