It suggests that whoever buried Conquest Man was drawing on a tradition that had Scandinavian associations.

This could mean the person doing the burying was Scandinavian in cultural practice, or that Conquest Man himself came from a background in which these traditions were practiced, or that the staff tradition had been adopted into the local culture of this Humber port community through the long Scandinavian connections of the region.

Barton-upon-Humber, after all, was in an area deeply shaped by Scandinavian settlement.

The Danelaw, the region of England where Danish law and culture had held sway, had covered much of eastern and northern England for generations before the Norman Conquest.