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Posted on 08/23/2025 9:11:59 AM PDT by Ezekiel
Researchers believe they may have finally solved the mystery behind the disappearance of the infamous Lost Colony of the 16th century following a new discovery.
The so-called Lost Colony refers to 118 English settlers who vanished from Roanoke Island in North Carolina sometime after they set up in 1587.
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For centuries historians have speculated on whether the group evert made it to Croatoan as they seemed to suggest.
Now, researchers believe they did actually migrate there and assimilated with the Native Americans after finding iron filings known as hammerscale in a trash heap on Hatteras Island, Fox News Digital reports.
Hammerscale are flaky bits that contains iron forging byproducts, which the Native Americans would not have had yet, but English colonists would have been well–versed in.
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Their disappearance left centuries of people wondering if the colonists were killed or if they had immigrated to a new home.
This changed with the discovery of the hammerscale, which was accurately dated due to its position in the soil, buried in layers researchers say would have come from that century.
The team also found guns, nautical fittings, small cannonballs, and more, they told Fox News Digital.
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Not all that far-fetched. Many tribes had been decimated by diseases and warfare. They actively sought to add people to their tribe. My 2x great grandfather was actually adopted by the Sioux.
BTTT
Dont they conclude what happened like every other year?
I grew up in an area of SC close to the NC border where Native Americans, mostly Lumbee, also lived. When I was growing up, it was very common to hear people referred to as a “Croatan” meaning they had mixed Indian/European ancestry. You would often see someone who’s family was Native American but they would stand out because they had blue eyes. It was common lore in that area the lost colonists weren’t lost- they just went to live with the local tribe and had hoped the letters they wrote would tell anyone else where they had gone.
The team also found guns, nautical fittings, small cannonballs, and more, they told Fox News Digital.
My 7x great grandmother was captured and enslaved by the Comanche and went in to be one of the early settlers of St Louis. She has her own Wikipedia page!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Rosa_Villalpando
Dont they conclude what happened like every other year?
Yep
Yes, but this one has been out there for a couple years now. This is probably the correct one.
A plan had been preestablished that if the settlers were to leave the island, they would carve their location into a tree so he would know where they were.
But only remnant of human life left on the island was a carving of the word 'Croatoan' in a palisade, which many believed referred to Croatoan Island, or modern–day Hatteras Island.
White attempted to sail to the other island, but a storm disrupted him and forced him to reroute back to England with no news of the settlers.
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Last I heard it was pretty much proven by DNA they had been absorbed into the local Indian tribe.
Yup I have already heard this version of what happened to them. I saw in a video documentary a while back.
Heather Locklear has been proof enough of what happened for a long time now.
At least to me...
That was very interesting. What a blessing it is to descendants to be able to have that information because of people who cared to document such “small” details. It’s a blessing to others to read too, so thanks!
What a nice piece of family history. Thanks for sharing.
lol. I agree. “Iron shavings” probably should be in a later sentence
I have not followed the lost colony case closely.
But it makes sense that they would have been absorbed into a neighboring Indian tribe.
Otherwise, could they all have died of disease? But then no indication of remains were found, were they? I think the evidence suggests that they all departed, and did not all pass away at that location.
This is one of history’s mysteries.
Yes. Same with Sally Hemmings/Thomas Jefferson, Jack the Ripper, Amelia Earhart, Black Dhalia, Jimmy Hoffa...
They pull from the filing cabinet on slow news days.
“They pull from the filing cabinet on slow news days.”
New information for those that actually read the article.
The colonists violated Star Fleet Prime Directive #1: do not interfere with the natural development of the native civilization.
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