Roanoke island

An artifact found 20 years ago turns out to not be what archaeologists thought

It looks like some new clues, pottery shards, have turned up in the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke.

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Ongoing excavations at two sites in North Carolina have yielded new clues about what may have happened to the English settlers who vanished from Roanoke Island around 1590.

In times of cultural failure and upheaval, there are usually two kinds of extremists. Those who abandon any established order as a thing beyond redemption, and those who remain within the system, hoping they can reform it. New England was settled by both sorts in turn — by Separatists and by Puritans. Let’s talk about ...

Raleigh's failed colony at Roanoke Island NC, 1587.

Roanoke Island, 12 mi (19 km) long and 3 mi (4.8 km) wide, NE N.C., off the Atlantic coast between Croatan (W) and Roanoke (E) sounds in the Outer Banks [1]. Manteo is the chief town, and tourism and fishing are the principal industries.

Roanoke Island

Statue of Virginia Dare at Elizabethan Gardens - Roanoke Island, NC -snuck in and played flashlight tag here many times!!

Under a blistering sun, Nicholas M. Luccketti swatted at mosquitoes as he watched his archaeology team at work in a shallow pit on a hillside above the shimmering waters of Albemarle Sound. On a table in the shade, a pile of plastic bags filled with artifacts was growing. Fragments of earthenware and pottery. A mashed metal rivet. A piece of a hand-wrought nail.