Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Lost Colony update Archaeologists finish dig, don't find Lost Colony

Archaeologists finished their underwater dig last week without finding out what happened to the Lost Colony, which was this country's first permanent English colony.

"We didn't find anything we were looking for," said Gordon Watts, a board member of the First Colony Foundation, a group of historians hoping to locate the site of the Lost Colony at Roanoke Island.

But the result didn't surprise Watts, an underwater archaeologist from Washington, N.C..

"There was no serious evidence we'd find something that's been lost 400 years in the first two weeks," he said.


Blogged this a couple weeks ago.