The result, over the next decade or two, may be a much richer picture of how the community of Barton-upon-Humber changed over the medieval period, who the people buried there were in terms of their ancestry, and how the community’s composition reflects the broader historical changes of the Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Norman periods.

A Final Note On What Is Known

The 2026 announcement of the Conquest Man project made the following things known with the confidence that the relevant scientific methods provide.

A man was buried in St Peter’s Church, Barton-upon-Humber, in a coffin made from oak felled approximately in 1079.

He was between fifty and sixty years old at the time of his death.

He was approximately five feet one inch in height, with a stocky and muscular build.