The silver could have taken the form of French bowls, plates or spoons before being melted down and refashioned into coins, report experts at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
At the time, relations between England and France tended to be 'up and down'. READ MORE Coin hoard could helpFrom football to armed conflict, history shows that Anglo-Franco rivalries run deep.
The experts also found that even older English coins used silver from the eastern Mediterranean, in the Byzantine Empire. Advertisement The study is the collaboration between researchers at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The later coins, dating from AD 750-820, used freshly mined silver, from Melle, in Aquitaine, western France.
READ MORE: Roman villa is discovered in Oxfordshire Found at the site is a treasure trove of objects, including belt buckles and coins In AD 793, Charlemagne introduced a coin reform that resulted in 'significant and widespread growth' in the use of Melle silver, according to the researchers. Charlemagne, King of the Franks from AD 768 until his death in 814, was Emperor of the great Carolingian Empire
At its greatest extent it stretched along the land surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, including what is now Italy, Greece, and Turkey along with portions of North Africa and the Middle East.
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