Researchers hopeful that NC site is that of Lost Colony
By MARTHA WAGGONER
Associated Press
RALEIGH, NC (AP) – A clue discovered just a few years ago on a centuries-old map has led researchers back to a North Carolina site in hopes of discovering whether the men, women and children of North Carolina’s “Lost Colony” settled there.
In 2012, researchers with the First Colony Foundation and the British Museum announced they had found a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from Roanoke Island in the late 16th century.
That clue on a map led foundation researchers back to a site where they had previously found artifacts years ago. More recent digs found more artifacts that appear to be of the correct time period.
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