Posted on 03/01/2019 12:56:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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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Lunatic. Heather Locklear is a lunatic.................
In the event of an emergency the planned to go “50 miles into the main” and Site X is pretty close to that distance.
It was the Moops...
That is a lot better than Ceti Alpha VI.
This was funny:
And now, related topics:
I'm sure we've had at least one topic on FR about The Dare Stones, but boy, the search didn't find anything.
I must say, I’m a sucker for the Lost Colony of Roanoke” stories.
I read a book last year about the Dare Stones and how that university was conned.
The archaeologists says laughing “ I found this humerus”
Missing 411?
Dare stones... that pretty much describes growing up in the 1970s...
They can be found -- all the missing colonists still vote D.
for savages living in the stone age, a “tenterhook” probably had the coveting allure that an iphone might have today.
They used gps back then and took the wrong trail.
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