A CT scan has been carried out on the mummified skull of a former Archbishop of Canterbury who was beheaded in 1381.
Images from the scan carried out at the West Suffolk Hospital will be used to create a facial likeness of Simon Theobald - "Simon of Sudbury" - who was also once Lord Chancellor of England.
He was killed outside the Tower of London during the Peasants' Revolt.
Axe marks can be seen on the back of the skull, which usually rests at St Gregory's Church in Sudbury.
Professor Caroline Wilkinson from Dundee University is overseeing the project.
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