Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke, which scholars have spent hundreds of years searching for.
READ MORE:Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke that scholars have spent hundreds of years searching for.
It also happens to match the location of a site called 31BR246, where archaeologist Nicholas Luccketti of the James River Institute for Archaeology discovered pieces of English ceramic artifacts in 2007. More than 400 years ago, Queen Elizabeth I and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh had hoped the 1580s expedition to America would create a new capital for England, but something went terribly wrong.It also happens to match the location of a site called 31BR246, where archaeologist Nicholas Luccketti of the James River Institute for Archaeology had discovered pieces of ceramic artifacts in 2007.The group included Governor John White's pregnant daughter Eleanor White Dare.
'La Virginea Pars,' was drawn by John White, a cartographer who was part of the group of colonists that sailed to Roanoke Island in 1585 to establish the first permanent English settlement there. Today, this island is part of North Carolina He determined that these fragments were Border ware, a specific type of English pottery that had been 'limited to the earliest settlement sites in Virginia, possibly dating back to the sixteenth century, he told Popular Mechanics.
What's more, excavations did not reveal the fort that had been marked and then concealed on White's map.
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