 It was where Ermine Street, the major Roman road between "Londinium" (London) and Lincoln, terminated on the south bank of the Humber.Travellers then crossed the river by way of a ferry or low-tide ford to "Petuaria" (Brough) on the north bank where a Roman road continued on to "Eboracum" (York) and Hadrian's Wall.A pre-Roman ridgeway, called Yarlesgate or Earlsgate, may have also resumed here on its route south and south-west towards the Midlands and South West England.