Wonderful! Include the lost colony of Roanoke?

Started by Erica Howton on Friday, October 2, 2015
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10/2/2015 at 1:44 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/science/the-roanoke-colonists-los...

http://firstcolonyfoundation.org/

http://firstcolonyfoundation.org/news/2015_site_x_01.aspx

First Colony archaeologists conduct excavations at Site XIn late July, Nick Luccketti directed a small team of archaeologists to Site X, the focus of FCF investigations on the locality indicated on Raleigh's 'Virginea Pars' map of eastern North Carolina as the possible location of a colonial outpost. Our evidence continues to mount that this site deserves further, and more intense, archaeological investigation.

Archaeologists and historians of the First Colony Foundation have followed up a 2012 map discovery with three years of investigation. Evidence has been found to support an interpretation that a few of the Lost Colonists were present for some time on a site in the area concealed on a 16th century map made by John White, the colony's governor and grandfather of Virginia Dare.

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