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Posted on 08/11/2015 11:08:07 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
MERRY HILL, N.C. — Under a blistering sun, Nicholas M. Luccketti swatted at mosquitoes as he watched his archaeology team at work in a shallow pit on a hillside above the shimmering waters of Albemarle Sound. On a table in the shade, a pile of plastic bags filled with artifacts was growing. Fragments of earthenware and pottery. A mashed metal rivet. A piece of a hand-wrought nail.
They call the spot Site X. Down a dusty road winding through soybean fields, the clearing lies between two cypress swamps teeming with venomous snakes. It is a suitably mysterious name for a location that may shed light on an enigma at the heart of America’s founding: the fate of the “lost colonists” who vanished from a sandy outpost on Roanoke Island, about 60 miles east, in the late 16th century.
On and off for three years, Mr. Luccketti and colleagues with the First Colony Foundation have been excavating parts of the hillside, hoping to find traces of the colonists. As if clues in a latter-day treasure hunt, hidden markings on a 16th-century map led them to the spot on the sound’s western shore, which Mr. Luccketti had previously surveyed.
Mr. Luccketti, 66, chose his words carefully as he described the fruits of their latest work. “I’m trying to make sure that I say this correctly,” he said. “We have evidence from this site that strongly indicates that there were Roanoke colonists here.”
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I remember reading about this lost colony as a kid - the only thing that anyone found was the word “CROATOAN” carved into a tree...
Now we have to change the name to “The Found Colony”
I’m jealous. My ancestors were at Jamestowne. Love visiting Williamsburg where they have the found objects.
We lived in Yorktown for 2 years when my husband was stationed at the USCG station there, I absolutely loved it. I roamed around and soaked up history all the time. I even found a couple of cannon balls on the high bank of the York River. Wish I had a metal detector no telling what I would have found!
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Many Indians in the area have the last name Dare.
I lived in Yorktown as a small child around 1950 when my father was a young Navy Lieutenant JG at one of the many navy installations in the area.
I still remember the redoubts and cannons at the reconstructed battlefield from 1950-51 when my family lived on Old Jamestown Road which is nonexistant now or has had a name change, and an old lady friend of my parents, Mrs. Kelly who lived in one of the last privately owned 18th century houses in Williamsburg.
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