The project that produced his facial reconstruction did something that the most comprehensive visual document of his era could not do: it showed the face of someone who was not a king, not a lord, not a bishop, but a person of substance and connection in an English community at one of England’s most consequential moments.

This is one of the most important contributions that archaeological science makes to historical understanding.

It can show the faces, or at least the traces, of the people that the documents were never designed to record.

Anglo-Scandinavian Culture In The Humber Region

The specific cultural environment of Barton-upon-Humber in 1079 reflects a distinctive regional history that predates the Norman Conquest by centuries.

The Danelaw, the area of England where Danish law and custom prevailed following the Viking settlements of the ninth century, included the counties of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on either side of the Humber.