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3 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Anglo-Saxon to Late Medieval (630 – 1350 CE) · Anglo-Saxon / East Anglian / Norman English
England's great medieval port lost to 700 years of North Sea erosion — churches, friary and quay now mapped 300–900 m offshore on Dunwich Bank.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Medieval (1235 – 1362 CE) · Anglo-Norman / Hanse
13th-century Humber port that briefly outranked Hull — parliamentary borough lost 1362 to storms and sand-spit destruction, now under Humber silt.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Medieval (1110–1288 CE) · English Norman / Cinque Ports
Cinque Port drowned 1287–1288 — 50-acre shingle island harbour now −6 m in Rye Bay; New Winchelsea bastide 1292 replacement 2 km inland.
