Not just described in a press release or depicted in a facial reconstruction image, but actually encountered as a physical presence in the church where he was buried nearly a thousand years ago.

There is something appropriate about this, even if it is also slightly strange.

Conquest Man’s story is fundamentally about a place, a specific church in a specific town on a specific river, as much as it is about a specific person.

The Humber, the Norman church, the pre-Conquest foundations, these are not backdrop but context that is part of who he was and why he was buried where he was.

English Heritage, the charity that now has care of St Peter’s Church, has made the study and display of Conquest Man part of their work with the site.