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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "History" 2009.08.120 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<div>> From: Roger Thijs, Euro-Support,
Inc. <<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be" target="_blank">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>><br>> Subject: LL-L History</div>
<div>> ... Apparently there has been a
pre-Hanze, controlled by Saxons. .... Â relevant trade towns: London,
Quentowic (in France), Dorestad, Hamburg, Haitabu and Birka in
Scandinavia.<br>> On url: <a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorestad" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorestad</a>Â a similar map gives additionally York and
Kaupang<br>> Quentovic remains a kind of mistery town of the Saxons.<br>>
The Dutch wikipedia locates it at Etaples:<a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentovic" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentovic</a><br>> The French wikipedia at La Calotterie
<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentovic" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentovic</a><br>> "En 2004, pour la première fois, des
vestiges ont été localisés à La Calotterie, entre Montreuil-sur-Mer et Le
Touquet, au mont de Beck, Visemaretz."<br>> I made a little scan (an excerpt
from roadmap 101 of the IGN, scale
<strong><u>1:100.000</u></strong>):<br><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/hahn/sax.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/hahn/sax.jpg</a><br></div></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I made an additional scan of a larger scale map (map nr
2105-ET of the IGN (<u><strong>1:25.000</strong></u>))</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">in 2 parts:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">East: <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/hahn/saxe.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/hahn/saxe.jpg</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">with <strong>Visemaretz - La Calotterie -
Montreuil-sur-Mer</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">West: <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/hahn/saxw.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/hahn/saxw.jpg</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">wth <strong>Etaples.</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I tried to find some literature about the 2004 excavations in
French literature, but in vain.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Looking at URL <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaples" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaples</a>Â I
read:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">* quote</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><em>Étaples was one of a number of sites identified as
<strong>Quentovicus</strong> from which, as from Boulogne-sur-Mer Roman ships
prepared for the passage to Britannia. However, excavations coordinated by
<strong>Dr David Hill of Manchester University</strong> between 1984 and 1991
uncovered the remains of a substantial settlement at <strong>Visemarest</strong>
near the hamlet of <strong>La Calotterie</strong>. This site is located to the
east of Étaples, further up the Canche valley near the town of
Montreuil-sur-Mer.[2] This is now accepted as the site of
<strong>Quentovic</strong>, although the finds from the excavations are to be
found in the <strong>Musée de Quentovic in Étaples</strong> (the museum
predating the discovery of the site itself by a number of
years).</em></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><em>During the ninth century this coast, like that of eastern
England, was subject to raids and settlement by Norsemen. From their point of
view, this off-shore site, protected by mud flats and marsh, was ideal as a base
from which to conduct raids elsewhere, assemble the booty and perhaps ship it
off home.</em></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">* end quote</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">So the 2004 excavations may be preceeded by Manchester Uni
excavations in 1984-1991 and those results are most probably published in some
archeological magazines in the UK.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Some key date translated from the French from URL</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentovic" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentovic</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- It is an old harbor from the <strong>7th till 9th
century</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- It has been personal property of Charlemagne</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- First quotes of the city are by Eddius Stephanus in
Vita Wilfridi</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- and by Bede in his church history, noting that the bischop
of Canterbury passed there in 669</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- It had a mint workshop</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- Traded goods include:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>Â Â - linen from the UK</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>Â - amber from the Baltic</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>Â - tin from the Isle of
Wight</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- At the time the valley was completely flooded at high
tide.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- It has also be the base for a section of the Roman fleet in
the <strong>3d--4th century</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- Trade towns included: <strong>Ribe, Hedeby, Dorstad, Birka,
Hamwith</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- The size <strong>35 ha</strong> was comparable
with:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Â Dorestad 40 ha</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Â Southampton 45 ha</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- The type of harbor was suitable for the <strong>Frisian and
Saxon ships with flat bottom</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- Reference is made to a <u>trading language</u>
"<strong>Nordsee-Germanisch</strong>"</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- It had a "customs administration" function for trade between
<strong>Kent</strong> ans<strong> Neustria</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- Its disappearance may be linked to:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Â Â - pirate incursions</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Â Â - the developments of Boulogne-sur-Mer (more to
the North) and Montreuil-sur-Mer</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Â Â - the fragility of the wooden harbor
structure</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">* end quoting of highlights</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>Coins</strong> of the town (1g of silver, coinage of
the xth century) <strong>sell for 110 euro:</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.cgb.fr/monnaies/vso/v25/gb/monnaiesgba92d.html" target="_blank">http://www.cgb.fr/monnaies/vso/v25/gb/monnaiesgba92d.html</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Roger</font></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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