The reconstruction of a face showing a healed wound

Abstract A facial reconstruction was produced from the skull of a white male soldier (number 16), aged 45–50 years, from the 1996 Towton Battle collection of the University of Bradford. This skull was fragmented and exhibited a well-healed blade injury to the left mandibular body. The facial reconstruction took into account the position and depth of this traumatic wound, and the nature of the healing process, in order that the face of the soldier was depicted as close to his appearance prior to death as possible.