Archaeologists getting closer to figuring out what happened to Lost Colony, expert says

The Virginian-Pilot ^ | February 18, 2019 | Bob Ruegsegger

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Luccketti's presentation in late January at the Isle of Wight County Museum in Smithfield focused on the "possible relocation" of some of the Roanoke Island colonists to a site in eastern North Carolina named Site X. But he said others from the Lost Colony, maybe even a large group, might have migrated to somewhere near Site X.

"Now we have things pointing us in the right direction," he said. "We have Site X. We've got the map (Virginea Pars). We have a published article by a very prominent, deceased North Carolina historian Tom Parramore."

Explorers, historians and archaeologists have been trying to figure out what happened to the Roanoke colony since at least 1590 when John White, tasked by Sir Walter Raleigh with setting up a new colony in 1587, returned to the colony after gathering supplies from England to find it deserted.

Luccketti and the First Colony Foundation subscribe to the proposition that the colonists went to a new location and have been conducting archaeological and historical investigations to figure out where.

Recent archaeological excavations -- backed by the historical record and some highly respected theories -- indicate that Site X in Bertie County, N.C., might be a step in the right direction.

Dozens of 16th-century, English-associated artifacts excavated at Site X include lead seals from bales of cloth, firing pans from snaphaunce firearms, aglets for shirt-lace strings, shards of Border ware (ceramics) and tenterhooks for stretching hides, Luccketti said.

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Nicholas M. Luccketti has been working with a team of archaeologists and historians at Site X in Bertie County, N.C. [Bob Ruegsegger/For The Virginian-Pilot/For The Virginian-Pilot]

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[vpintheak]

Just find it hard to believe that they relocated with nothing but a cryptic word. Nothing else. It seems more likely they were killed, enslaved, and everything hauled off.

[gattaca]

I’ve always found this interesting.

[Telepathic Intruder]

[ifinnegan]

It was SPacE pEoPle

[Theophilus]

I don’t think they “relocated”, I think their stuff “relocated”.

[Unam Sanctam]

But what about the map evidence with “x” marking the spot?

[DAC21]

Indians, or hurricane?

[fieldmarshaldj]

It’d be nice to finally find out their disposition (I presume they moved).

[RedMonqey]

Indians

[BeauBo]

“I don’t think they “relocated”, I think their stuff “relocated”.”

American Indians in general were big slave raiders preying on each other.

[fella]

Isn’t there a tribe near there that has blue eyes?

[BeauBo]

Isn’t there a tribe near there that has blue eyes?

[piasa]

No, only some tribes were, not all by any means. Some were notorious like the traditional slavers of the Northwest who had been slaving long before whites came, or the newer ones like the Chickasaw, who when deerskins were becoming harder to obtain for trade, turned to preying on their brethren the Choctaw, capturing and selling Choctaws to white traders on the coast who shipped them to the Caribbean islands.

Slavery sprang up all over the world whenever there was warfare for territory or for women, and enough revulsion to killing captives to justify it... primitive cultures had no prisons and not enough resources to support and guard prisoners of war, so they had to choose between killing those who surrendered or selling most of them to protect themselves from their captives. That meant only keeping a few they thought they could adopt, or could control, like the very young … a few older prisoners might also be kept because they had some skill or use that made it worth the risk of keeping them, but the rest would have to be killed before white buyers were on the scene to create a market for them.

[waterhill]

Lumbee. Heather Locklear is a Lumbee.

[chesley]

My theory has always been that the Gaia-loving indigenous people peaced them to death.

[Jack Hammer]

It was aliens.

The whole colony was moved to Tau Ceti 4.

[BenLurkin]

The answer tomorrow on Hannity.

[_Jim]

Fire Ants. Or equivalent. They will ‘walk off’ with anything.

Or, maybe Indians/an indigenous population existing as independent tribes pursuing age-old traditions, practices, rituals and the like on those they ‘encountered’, peaceful or not ...