The gray hair reflects the age estimate, fifties to sixties.

The stubble represents a choice about whether to depict a clean-shaved face or a bearded one.

Many reconstructions of medieval men include beards or stubble because facial hair was common in the period and because it is consistent with what visual sources from the era depict.

The result is presented, and should be understood, as an honest probabilistic representation of what this man might have looked like, not a certain recreation of his actual appearance.

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