But he is also most meaningful when understood in the context of the population he belonged to.

Future analysis of additional individuals from St Peter’s using ancient DNA and isotope methods will allow researchers to determine how typical or unusual Conquest Man’s profile was within his community at that period.

Was substantial continental European ancestry common in Barton around 1079, suggesting a community with strong cross-North Sea connections?

Or was he genuinely unusual, a distinctive individual in a more homogeneous local population?

These questions cannot be answered from a single individual.