I have to disagree. IMHO, this is the kind of stuff universities should be researching. As an amateur genealogist, I have to be, by extension, a historian. It’s really upsetting how much of our history has been lost because people just didn’t care to preserve it, on top of all the wars where courthouses, etc., were burned to the ground. Did you know that just within the past 5 years, someone looked more closely at a map of coastal North Carolina from the mid-1500s and realized there was a patch on it...upon lifting the patch, they discovered a symbol of a fort? It had been a secret “right under their noses” for over 400 years. This has led them inland to the Chowan River, where they have discovered broken English pottery dating to the Elizabethan period. In other words, they may have found the Lost Colony.
Elizabethan period. In other words, they may have found the Lost Colony
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But...but...if they find the Lost Colony what will become of the Lost Colony Attraction in the Outer Banks? The great mystery will be over! ;)
That entire site was private property and has been secured by a land trust for the state.
The “patch” was discovered through some sort of optical analysis.
Above is a link to your secret map and the lost colony - cool stuff.
I used to work in New Jersey doing remote sensing for old dump sites, hazardous waste, etc.
One client, in relating what they had found when I told them where to dig related the usual buried debris and drums in one area, but in one of my spots they dug up an outhouse. They found some unbroken bottles, old buttons, etc. dating back to the Revolutionary War era. They just kept the stuff - no archaeologists or anything. That was 30 years ago - I'm guessing procedures have changed by now.