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.
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreFirst 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.
Read MoreFCF Associates Dig at Harriot Home in Ireland
From June 22 to June 28, 2015 associates of the First Colony Foundation participated in archaeological excavations at Molana Abbey, the recorded home of Thomas Harriot.
Read MoreFirst Colony Foundation Awarded National Geographic Society/Waitt Grant for Research in 2013
The First Colony Foundation is pleased to announce that the National Geographic Society/Waitt Grants program has awarded a grant of $15,000 in support of the research project titled “Clues to the Lost Colony? Remote Sensing and Site Testing along Albemarle Sound, Bertie County, North Carolina.”
Read MoreFirst Colony Foundation Commences Archaeological Research near the Chowan River in North Carolina
First Colony Foundation research vice president and archaeologist Nicholas Luccketti and his team of archaeologists and curators continue to implement the foundation’s research design to determine if there are physical remains of Elizabethan activities in Bertie County, NC.
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