The distance between what is known and what cannot be known is the distance that science crosses but cannot close.

The face looks out from the reconstruction.

A thousand years of silence surrounds it.

And the history of England, in all its complexity and violence and transformation, contains this one specific man whose bones have now been heard, whose face has now been shown, and whose name is still, and will perhaps always be, unknown.

 

What Remains To Be Found

The excavations at St Peter’s Church, Barton-upon-Humber produced one of the largest medieval burial datasets in England.