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Archaeologists are closer than ever to locating a lost medieval town sometimes referred to as Yorkshire’s “Atlantis,” beneath the waves.
Also called Ravenser Odd, the town flourished in what is now east Yorkshire along the east coast of England during the Middle Ages before it was lost to the sea.
“It was a major settlement of some 400+ households,” Daniel Parsons, a professor of sedimentology at the University of Hull in Yorkshire, told Live Science in an email. Historical records say that the site had a sea wall, harbor, prison and marketplace, Parsons said.
A search for Ravenser Odd in November 2021 in part of the Humber River estuary turned up empty; but now the team believes that it is getting closer than ever now that they have narrowed down the remaining area where it could be located. Read more.
Portrait of a Palestinian construction worker, Muhammed Abu Khabir, in a house being renovated, at the Jewish settlement of Alon, West Bank. February 16, 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90
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Genealogy, Labour and Land: The Settlement of the Mýramenn in Egils saga
Genealogy, Labour and Land: The Settlement of the Mýramenn in Egils sagaSantiago Barreiro
Network & Neighbours, vol. 3, n. 1 (2015)
This study analyses the way in which the thirteenth-century Egils saga Skallagrímssonar presented the migration to Iceland of Egill’s father Grímr and grandfather Úlfr, and the creation of a settlement in the area of Borgarfjǫrðr in Western Iceland during the tenth…
A Shining Seaside Settlement ~
Something I’ve been working on for awhile. It consists of around 6 houses, an Inn, and a port but I’ll continue adding onto it in the future!
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