Bone density, joint surface wear, changes in the pubic symphysis, the condition of the vertebrae, each of these provides information about how old a body was when it stopped aging.

For Conquest Man, the accumulation of these markers suggests a man who had reached what was, for his era, a relatively advanced age.

Then there were the fractures.

His bones showed evidence of multiple healed fractures, injuries that had been sustained during his lifetime and that his body had mended.

The finding that this man had been injured multiple times, that each injury healed, and that he died with none of them as the cause, is significant.

Healed fractures are a common finding in medieval skeletal populations.