Yorkshire’s lost ‘Atlantis’ nearly found, says Hull professor

Ravenser Odd, thought to have been located near Spurn Point in the Humber estuary, was destroyed in 1362. Photograph: Mr. Nut/Alamy

Hopes are high that a fabled medieval town known as “Yorkshire’s Atlantis” is about to be located and will begin giving up secrets held for more than 650 years.

Ravenser Odd was a prosperous port town built on sandbanks at the mouth of the Humber estuary before it was abandoned and later destroyed and submerged by a calamitous storm in 1362.