A map of Fort Raleigh National Historic Site showing the locations of recent excavations.
- Reinterpreting Fort Raleigh Outwork-Science Center Part 1: Structural Reinterpretation
By Dr. Eric Klingelhofer
- Reinterpreting Fort Raleigh Outwork-Science Center Part 2: Science and Industry
By Dr. Eric Klingelhofer- View Appendix 1. A for Reinterpreting Fort Raleigh Outwork-Science Center
- View Appendix 1. B for Reinterpreting Fort Raleigh Outwork-Science Center
- View Appendix 1. C for Reinterpreting Fort Raleigh Outwork-Science Center
- View Appendix 2 for Reinterpreting Fort Raleigh Outwork-Science Center
- View Appendix 2 for Reinterpreting Fort Raleigh Outwork-Science Center
- Excavating Fort Raleigh: Archaeology at England’s First Colony
Dr. Ivor Noel Hume
Edited by Dr. Eric Klingelhofer and Nicholas Luccketti
Purchase at Arcadia Publishing
Dig into a first-hand account of excavations at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.
A small earthen fort on Roanoke Island, traditionally known as Old Fort Raleigh, was the site of the first English colony in the Americas. Previous archaeological discoveries at the site left many questions unanswered by the 1990s.
Where was the main fort and town founded by Raleigh’s lieutenant, Ralph Lane, the first governor? Was the small log structure outside the fort really a defensive outwork? And why did the colonists go to the effort of making bricks from the local clay?
These are the questions that scholars hoped to answer in an extensive, professional dig funded by National Geographic from 1991 to 1993. This skilled team of excavators-with a little luck-revealed America’s first scientific laboratory, where the Elizabethan scientist Thomas Harriot analyzed North American natural resources and Joachim Gans assayed ores for valuable metals.Famed archaeologist of Colonial America Ivor Noël Hume describes the labor-intensive process of discoveries at Fort Raleigh.
Read The Appendices for Excavating Fort Raleigh: Archaeology at England’s First Colony - Past Archaeology at Fort Raleigh
By Martha Williams - Timeline: Archaeology at the Northwest End of Roanoke Island
By Nicholas M. Luccketti and Clay Swindell - Archaeological Survey of Prince House Woods, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, Roanoke Island, North Carolina
By Nicholas M. Luccketti - Elizabethan Landscapes: Conjectural Reconstruction of Sixteenth-Century Topography at Prince House Woods, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
By Eric Klingelhofer - Fort Raleigh Archaeological Project: 1994/1995 Survey Report
By Nicholas M. Luccketti - 2007 Raleigh Colony Investigation: Magnetic Anomaly Identification & Assessment, Roanoke Sound and Shallowbag Bay, Roanoke Island, North Carolina
By Gordon P. Watts, Jr. - First Colony Barrel Beach Project Update: 10 June 2010
By Gordon P. Watts, Jr.