User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/Should a city-sized Winterhold have been in Skyrim?/@comment-5423369-20121104165329/@comment-1840877-20121111093728

There wouldn't really be any ruins, though. Keep in mind, during the Great Collapse, most of Winterhold literally fell off the cliffs into the Sea of Ghosts. The reason there aren't any ruins is because most of the city was simply swallowed by the sea.