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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 8106231, member: 56653&quot;]The location of Quentovic is still an ongoing conversation and the subject of some controversy, considering that by the 10th century when this immobilized coinage starts, the emporium was supposed to have been abandoned. The archaeological research started in the mid 1980s at La Calloterie on the Canche river adds the site to the possible candidates for the vicus, and the use of it until ca. early 11th century, instead of the 9th as seemed to be the general understanding from early medieval texts, allows also the 10th century issue of coinage (this late GDR type stopped ca. 980).</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone is interested in more about La Calloterie being the ancient Quentovic, I recommend <i>Quentovic defined </i>which can be read <a href="http://archeurope.info/@texts/quentovic_defined.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://archeurope.info/@texts/quentovic_defined.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>. And <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227955724_Trading_places_Quentovic_and_Dorestad_reassessed" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227955724_Trading_places_Quentovic_and_Dorestad_reassessed" rel="nofollow">here</a> is how numismatics probably helped in understanding the old emporium better (and extending its life), in <i>Trading Places... </i>the article I mentioned Saturday.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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