In June 2016, NPS archaeologists and First Colony Foundation’s Eric Deetz located Elizabethan pottery in a salvage excavation on an eroding bluff 400 yards northeast of the Fort Raleigh earthwork.
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FIRST COLONY FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM ON SIR WALTER RALEIGH’S LOST COLONY –
Westward Ho! Roanoke, the Map, and X Marks the Spot
VIDEO: New Clues To The Lost Colony
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Testing Continues at Site X
In late July, Nick Luccketti directed a small team of archaeologists to Site X, the focus of FCF investigations on the locality indicated on Raleigh’s ‘Virginea Pars’ map of eastern North Carolina as the possible location of a colonial outpost. Our evidence continues to mount that this site deserves further, and more intense, archaeological investigation.
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New Agreement with Park Service
On Friday, 10 July 2015, the First Colony Foundation entered into a new cooperative agreement with the National Park Service at Fort Raleigh Historic Site in Manteo, North Carolina.
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First Colony Foundation Presents Research at London Conference
The Society for the History of Discoveries, meeting at the Institute for Historical Research of the University of London, heard on 9 July 2015 a research paper by FCF board members Brent Lane and Phil Evans.
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