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Posted on 06/06/2026 5:53:54 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin
A layer in the ground, dating back to the late 1500s, showed potential evidence of European blacksmithing in a Native American community. Carbon dating technology is now solidifying these finds as evidence that the “Lost Colony” was not really lost.
Many of us were taught the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island as kids. In short, the story ends with European voyagers traveling to Roanoke Island to check on colonists, finding an apparently cryptic message in a tree that said, “Croatoan.”
“That’s why it’s so insane when they push this narrative of, no one knows what Croatoan means,” Dawson said. “It’s like, you got Croatoan dudes on the ship with you.”
“I just can’t believe they’ve gotten away with it for this long,” he added.
Buxton native and owner of Lost Colony Museum and Gifts, Dawson is working alongside renowned University of Bristol archaeologist, Mark Horton. They keep finding things pointing to the possibility of this “lost colony” actually moving to modern-day Hatteras Island, living with the natives.
Since our previous coverage, digs uncovered a dress hook made of gun metal, a red brass item implying there were women colonists there. Dawson said this brass is not native to North America.
They are gradually sending finds to California for carbon dating, a scientific process which determines the age of organic material. It is costly and takes time. Their items are in line with the many items submitted by other researchers around the country.
“We got the carbon dates on, finally, four of them,” Dawson said. “Dinger, dinger, dinger, dinger. All of them were from the 1580s, so there’s no need to do that expensive test again.”
They just got carbon dating results from a fascinating find, some may call a smoking gun. In Dawson’s words, it is “one of the dopest things ever.”
He is talking about a musket ball found inside of a deer jaw bone.
“They have an armor piercing round, which is an iron core with lead around it,” Dawson explained.
With organic material surrounding this musketball, they carbon dated the deer it was lodged in.
“The iron that was inside, when it oxidized, it kind of Chia Petted out and captured the lead, so you can’t see it,” Dawson said. “You can’t carbon date a musketball, but you can carbon date a deer.”
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Bkmk
Worth a read for the amusing lingo alone ;)
I think they moved to Hatteras Island for whatever reason, then they were hit by a hurricane and they all perished................😓
The final indignity.
Y’all got any more of them Croatoan?
could have moved to Hatteras Island like you said and then spread diseases to the natives there that had no immunity to them, resulting in everyone dying.
Quite possible. Pocahontas died of TB, IIRC.......
It is rather ironic that the New World was discovered just as some of the deadliest diseases in human history were sweeping Europe.
And the early explorers brought them all here to share with the natives.
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And the natives gave the Europeans syphilis to take back to the old world.
They took some back to Europe too!.........
That’s Fauxcahontas!...........
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