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The Roanoke was established in 1585 on Roanoke island which is now Dare County , North Carolina. A group of 115 English settlers arrived on the island in 1587. Later that year John White the governor of the new colony decided he will sail back to England to gather a fresh load of supplies. When he arrived, a major naval war broke loose between Spain and England. In August 1590 , White finally returned to Roanoke, where he had left his family.Virginia Dare , his infant granddaughter was the first english kid born in the Americas. White found no trace of the colony or its inhabitants. He had few clues to what had happened from the single word “Croatoan” which means, carved into a wooden post. Roanoke continued over the centuries. No one has …show more content…

Despite the lingering mystery, it seems there’s one thing to be thankful for: The lessons learned at Roanoke may have helped the next group of English settlers, who would found their own colony 17 years later just a short distance to the north, at …show more content…

Another group of archaeologists working about 50 miles west of Roanoke Island at the head of Albemarle Sound say that they have pottery and metal artifacts likely associated with the Lost Colony. The digs by the First Colony Foundation were sparked by the 2012 discovery of a patch concealing the image of a fort on a map painted by John White.But like the finds at Hatteras, the objects might be associated with the second wave of English settlement.Last fall, a dig by the National Park Service at Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island thought to be the site of the original settlement yielded no trace of the colonists. Earlier in 2016, archaeologists found a handful of fragments of an apothecary jar that almost certainly date from the 16th century. The gold Kendall ring is likely a cheap brass trade item won’t derail the quest to find out what took place on the Outer Banks more than four centuries ago. As for Ewen, he hopes that the analysis of the ring will help put researchers back on track in their search for scarce clues to the Roanoke settlers. Ewen said,“Science actually does work,” “if you give it time.”GPR is a technology employed by archaeologists to visualize and map possible objects below ground. It sends radio waves into the ground and measures the echo from the signal that bounces off buried objects. On the other hand , GPR has been used to identify coffins since the coffins contain voids with poorer conductive

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