The mystery around the early explorers of Lost Colony, Ranoke and Sir Walter Rale is one to fascinate generations of northern carolines.
Next week, archaeologists will dig at Elizabethon Garden, with the hope of finding new evidence of Ranoke’s “Algonquin Village” – which was home to the explorers of Sir Walter Rale in 1584.
In the last summer, the first colony Foundation team exposed the tantalizing clues in the ongoing mystery. He dug the sharp of Algonquin Pottery while dating back in the 1500s, as well as a ring of copper wire believes that they could have a earrings that once decorated a warrior from a Swadeshi tribe.
“Searching for domestic soil utensils – types used for cooking – in close proximity to the original American jewelry, strongly confirms that we are digging between a compromise,” Eric Klingalhofer, “says Vice Chairman of the First Colony Foundation for research.
And Ranoke is the only known village at that site.
A copper ring may mean that a village was once standing in Elizabathan Garden
Historians say that copper had almost spiritual significance for indigenous tribes.
“He gave importance to gold and silver in English. For example, the tribal heads honored brave warriors with a trinket made of beaten copper, which reflects the price indigenous people, ”in a release from the First Colony Foundation.
The ring, in particular, supports the idea that they can find the remains of Ranoke.
“Made of drawn copper, the wire was almost certainly brought to the US by the English explorers as part of their business goods. Local original residents did not have the technique to produce such round strands. Nor French nor Spanish moved north as Ranoke Island for trade, ”the foundation said.
The secret of the lost colony is not only the place where the settlers have gone, but where 117 men, women and children also lived on the island of Ranoke.
Archaeologists will dig for about a week, which will begin on 4 March. This is the first of the two excavations planned for this spring. The next one Fort will be in Raley. You can first see for updates on the website of the Colony Foundation.