Thanks dware.
Posted on 08/10/2015 10:44:17 AM PDT by OddLane
MERRY HILL, N.C. — 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.
They call the spot Site X. Down a dusty road winding through soybean fields, the clearing lies between two cypress swamps teeming with venomous snakes. It is a suitably mysterious name for a location that may shed light on an enigma at the heart of America’s founding: the fate of the “lost colonists” who vanished from a sandy outpost on Roanoke Island, about 60 miles east, in the late 16th century.
On and off for three years, Mr. Luccketti and colleagues with the First Colony Foundation have been excavating parts of the hillside, hoping to find traces of the colonists. As if clues in a latter-day treasure hunt, hidden markings on a 16th-century map led them to the spot on the sound’s western shore, which Mr. Luccketti had previously surveyed
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Of GGG Interest?
I’m always interested in DWMs
I noticed that there were absolutely no disclaimers that the artifacts found in both locations could have been transported by victorious Indian tribesmen after a successful massacre of the interloping white devils as booty.
Strange.
Thanks for posting this.
If there were Indian artifacts mixed in with the English ones, maybe.
Bookmark
The Dare Stones:
http://nativeheritageproject.com/2013/12/08/the-dare-stones-1-through-48/
http://ncpedia.org/dare-stones
http://blogs.lib.unc.edu/ncm/index.php/2009/08/19/dare-stone-revisited-not-a-hoax-after-all/
http://www.strangehistory.org/cms/index.php/popular/80-dare-stones-1587-1938-feature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Dare
Thanks dware.
Don’t mention it!
IIRC, the general area likely holding remnants of the lost colonists is a live-fire lost-and-live-ordnance military training ground. Most of it is well preserved being untouched for a long time (and will remain so for long to come), but there’s serious risk to anyone exploring the area.
Fascinating stuff. Thanks.
I’ve always wondered if some of the bloodlines of the ‘Lost Ones’ wound up among the ‘Melungeons’...
-JT
We haven’t had a Melungeons topic in ages...
I don’t know anything about Melungeons, but wonder if people here know about the “Jackson’s Whites”. This was a community of people my father told me about that lived/lives in the northwest area of New Jersey. He said they were a mixture of AWOL Hessian soldiers from the Revolution, run away slaves and Indians.
Rob Lowe was on “Who Do You Think You Are” (the UK version of that is much more tolerable, btw, many are on YouTube) and found out that his Revolutionary War ancestor *was* a Hessian, captured at Trenton during George Washington’s most famous raid. The number of Hessians who elected to stay here and become citizens was fairly large, much larger I think than the number KIA. Because they practiced something like primogeniture in Hesse, quite a number of Hessian soldiers were basically not getting anything in the will, and saw moving to North America as a pretty good deal. There’s a reference to this phenomenon also in that TV movie “The Crossing” (Jeff Daniels almost pulls off his portrayal of George Washington; good production; not quite a documentary of course).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0df8d27xNVU
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBEFC88C17D2C3149
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/03/01/strangers-on-the-mountain
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1938/09/17/the-jackson-whites
http://weirdnj.com/stories/fabled-people-and-places/jackson-whites/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramapough_Mountain_Indians
Here is a book that came out in 2012 about The Lost Colony. It is well researched and written. The author goes into each of the two possibilities put for in this article.
Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony, by Lee Miller
And an article from the Daily Mail with nice period woodcuts:
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