Has Yorkshire’s Lost Underwater Town Ravenser Odd Finally Been Found?

Echosounder equipment uses echolocation technology to scan the sea floor. Credit: Steve Simmons/University of Hull

Founded around 1235 the town of Ravenser Odd had about 100 houses, a large market, prison, court, many shops, a sea wall, and a harbor before it was submerged by a storm known as Grote Mandrenke in 1362.

Scientists know the Medieval port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire on the sandbanks of the Spurn heritage coast in the UK did exist, but no one has been able to find the place nicknamed Yorkshire’s Atlantis. This may have changed now as Daniel Parsons, a Professor in sedimentology at the University of Hull says he thinks he has located the underwater ruins of the lost town’s market.

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