GGG Ping!..........
Earliest form of redaction? Somebody didn’t want map viewers to know a fort was there.
I’d like to see some of these mysteries solved in my lifetime. Roanoke, Amelia Erhart, Oak Island, etc.
Perhaps they mixed with the native American population and gave birth to Elizabeth Warren.
Roanoke?
Well, according to The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks....
It was zombies.
1587 A.D., ROANOKE ISLAND, NORTH CAROLINA
English Colonists, isolated from any support from Europe, sent regular hunting parties to the mainland in search of food. One of these parties disappeared for three weeks. When a long survivor returned, he described an attack by “a band of savages... their putrid, worm-ridden skin impervious to powder shot!”
Their intention was to create a settlement
One patch appears to merely correct a mistake on the map
Another symbol, appearing to be the very faint image of a different kind of fort
First Colony Foundation researchers believe that it could mark, literally and symbolically, `the way to Jamestown.'
Maybe he had the prospective fort on the original 1585 map and when the settlement site was found abandoned in 1587 due to his dithering around without returning to aid the colonists, he simply put on the patch to show nothing was there. A clean up job.
There can’t be many reasons to hide a settlement—or proposed settlement— “fifty miles further on the maine” on the map, especially since the original settlement is shown.
The alleged secret fort would seem to have been located near Merry Hill, North Carolina. I did quick look on Google Earth but didn’t notice any particularly suspicious fort-shaped mounds of earth. Perhaps it was just something they planned to build but never got around to it?