Craftsmen fractured bones.

Anyone who lived a physically active life in the eleventh century could accumulate healed fractures.

The evidence supports a physically active life; it does not point to a specific kind of life.

Kevin Booth, the English Heritage head curator of collections who has described Conquest Man as someone he had been “fascinated” by for twenty years, has noted that the man seems “connected to the wider continental world.” But the fractures alone are not the evidence for that.

They are evidence of a body that had been through things.