This position made Barton a place where people from different regions and backgrounds regularly passed through.

Merchants, clergy, pilgrims, soldiers, officials, and travelers of all kinds used the Humber crossings.

A prosperous man buried at St Peter’s around 1079 could easily have had connections across the North Sea world, either through direct experience or through the community networks of a town positioned on a major trade route.

The oxygen and strontium isotope data from Conquest Man’s teeth fit this environment.

The strontium ratios are compatible with the local geology around Barton, suggesting he spent significant time in the area.