Posted on 01/31/2025 12:06:36 PM PST by Red Badger
Most people have heard of the utterly baffling story of the "Lost Colony," the early English settlement in Virginia/North Carolina that completely vanished sometime before 1590:
The Lost Colony of Roanoke | Britannica
Explore the oldest mystery of colonial America.
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https://www.britannica.com/story/the-lost-colony-of-roanoke
The colony's founder, John White, departed for England in 1587; he returned three years later to find more than 100 colonists simply gone:
The word CROATOAN and the letters CRO, carved into trees within the colony's borders, were the only signs pointing to an explanation. Despite the clues, the returning crew was unable to search for the missing colonists; a storm approached just as they came upon the desolate settlement, forcing them to turn back for England.
Though long suspected to have ventured to "Croatoan Island," now Hatteras Island, the fate of the colonists has never been satisfactorily explained.
But that may have just changed:
Recently, a closer inspection of Governor John White's map, La Virginea Pars, revealed two faint outlines that appeared to be repairs — small pieces of paper had been used to cover an error. Under advanced lighting techniques, experts discovered that one of these patches concealed a symbol of a fort, which could indicate the intended location of a new settlement.
Here's part of that map:
'I said to Alice, "I think we just discovered the predicted location for the City of Raleigh, the colony for which John White was sent to Virginia,'" said Kim Sloan, a British Museum curator who made the discovery with her colleague, paper conservator Alice Ruhamer, according to Mail Online.
Now, the mere planned location for the site of a potential city in the New World might not, at first glance, tell us much about the fate of the colonists.
But the location of "Site X" offers more compelling evidence than that:
In 2007, archaeologist Nicholas Luccketti of the James River Institute for Archaeology discovered pieces of English ceramic artifacts at Site X. These artifacts included fragments of Border ware, a specific type of English pottery that had been restricted to the early settlements in Virginia, probably dating from the sixteenth century. The find suggests that archaeologists had stumbled upon a previously unknown English settlement.
Fragments of English pottery dating to 16th-century Virginia settlements?
Archeologists have also discovered "an early type of aglet (the metal tip of a shoelace), and a tenter hook (a nail used to secure cloth over a wooden frame)."
Based on these discoveries, the First Colony Foundation concluded that there was an English presence at Site X that could only have come from the Roanoke colonists
The First Colony Foundation "plans to continue investigating Site X in search of more evidence of English presence there and any clues that could provide more information about what happened to the inhabitants of the lost colony in 1587."
We'll keep a close eye on this one!
PinGGG!....................
If modern day Hatteras was in fact Croatoan, then they most likely perished in a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane that effectively erased them and their settlement for existence............
“Site X”
Has anybody alerted Elon?
Life isn’t always fair.
Not always? My brother, life is never fair.
Is there anybody from the past who can testify of this new settlement?
Where on the map is “Site X”?
I live very near the site - locals have long believed there is very little mystery. The colonists eventually intermarried with the local Indian tribes, most likely the Lumbee who do have blond hair, blue eyed descendants. They had to do what they had to do to survive.
Interestingly, Trump signed an EO that should lead to the Lumbee being formally recognized as a tribe
My experiences at Manteo convinced me that the colonists were all eaten by mosquitoes.
That very well could be.
Assume they went to Hatteras Island, then get hit by a hurricane, many perished and a remnant were rescued by the Lumbee and moved away.................
Early covid got them!
From your description of the Lumbee, it sounds like they did a bit of doing all righty.
No graves or signs of violence like burned buildings were found...............
I’ve wondered why old maps have outsized whales and fishes in the waters. Was that just art, or did it indicate something?
The site has been known for a good period. See FReepmail for more.
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Was subject of shows such as this:
History’s Greatest Mysteries
Season 4, Episode 4
The Lost Colony of Roanoke. Feb 20, 2023.
One page History site “This Day in History” item:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roanoke-colony-deserted.
Ridiculous there was no such things as hurricanes back then😎😂🦆
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