More than 1,000 years after his death, a man who lived through the upheaval of the Norman Conquest has been given a face. Known as “Conquest Man”, he was buried at St Peter’s Church in Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, around 1079, just 13 years after William the Conqueror’s victory at Hastings.

A stocky, battle-scarred man who lived through one of the most dramatic periods in English history has been brought back to life nearly 1,000 years after his death.

It’s ‘plausible’, though more likely the Humberside resident was one of many immigrants to Viking-controlled Danelaw