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Archaeologists getting closer to figuring out what happened to Lost Colony, expert says
The Virginian-Pilot ^ | February 18, 2019 | Bob Ruegsegger

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at pilotonline.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 1590; bertiecounty; croaton; godsgravesglyphs; lostcolony; nicholasmluccketti; northcarolina; roanoke; sitex; virgineapars; virginia
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To: waterhill

Lunatic. Heather Locklear is a lunatic.................


21 posted on 03/01/2019 6:10:55 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Unam Sanctam

In the event of an emergency the planned to go “50 miles into the main” and Site X is pretty close to that distance.


22 posted on 03/01/2019 7:07:02 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: Larry Lucido

It was the Moops...


23 posted on 03/01/2019 7:20:09 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Jack Hammer

That is a lot better than Ceti Alpha VI.


24 posted on 03/01/2019 7:22:02 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; Yaelle; KC_Lion
That's a misprint! It was the Boops!


25 posted on 03/01/2019 7:50:35 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: SunkenCiv

26 posted on 03/01/2019 10:18:14 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: BenLurkin; BlueLancer; vpintheak; gattaca; Telepathic Intruder; ifinnegan; Theophilus; ...
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.

27 posted on 03/01/2019 11:12:58 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv

I must say, I’m a sucker for the Lost Colony of Roanoke” stories.


28 posted on 03/01/2019 11:23:25 AM PST by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: SunkenCiv

I read a book last year about the Dare Stones and how that university was conned.

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Rocks-Unsolved-Mystery-Raleighs-ebook/dp/B004X2IAWG/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=the+dare+stones+book&qid=1551469643&s=gateway&sr=8-3


29 posted on 03/01/2019 11:49:07 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: SunkenCiv

The archaeologists says laughing “ I found this humerus”


30 posted on 03/01/2019 11:55:16 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (I hate baby killing pedophile socialist gun grabbers)
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To: READINABLUESTATE
Allan Sherman - I See Bones

31 posted on 03/01/2019 1:50:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv

Missing 411?


32 posted on 03/01/2019 1:51:25 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: rdl6989; RedMonqey
Dare stones... that pretty much describes growing up in the 1970s...

33 posted on 03/01/2019 1:52:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Larry Lucido


"Nope, sorry.  It was not the Boops.  It was..."

34 posted on 03/01/2019 2:10:24 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
They can be found -- all the missing colonists still vote D.

35 posted on 03/01/2019 2:16:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: BeauBo

for savages living in the stone age, a “tenterhook” probably had the coveting allure that an iphone might have today.


36 posted on 03/01/2019 4:07:18 PM PST by Theophilus (Make America Grateful Again)
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To: gattaca

They used gps back then and took the wrong trail.


37 posted on 03/01/2019 4:30:26 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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