The Virginian Pilot: ‘The mystery is over’: Researchers say they know what happened to ‘Lost Colony’

[The Evil Genius]

More of the story at the link.

 

https://www.pilotonline.com/news/vp-nw-not-lost-20200817-qgmblubzt5dyjm3jrcop25ssoq-story.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

 

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BUXTON, N.C. — The English colonists who settled the so-called Lost Colony before disappearing from history simply went to live with their native friends — the Croatoans of Hatteras, according to a new book.

“They were never lost,” said Scott Dawson, who has researched records and dug up artifacts where the colonists lived with the Indians in the 16th century. “It was made up. The mystery is over.”

 

[Dan T.]

That sounds like a reasonable explanation for what became of the colony. 

 

 

[TheGoodBits]

Dumbest mystery ever. This was taught in history in elementary school. They literally wrote it on the damn sign. 

[Corcaigh]

So it wasn’t ‘Lost’, it was just ‘Misplaced’ when it wandered off?

[visionary]

https://www.pilotonline.com/news/vp-nw-not-lost-20200817-qgmblubzt5dyjm3jrcop25ssoq-story.html

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‘The mystery is over’: Researchers say they know what happened to ‘Lost Colony’

 

The English colonists who settled the so-called Lost Colony before disappearing from history simply went to live with their native friends — the Croatoans of Hatteras, according to a new book.

 

“They were never lost,” said Scott Dawson, who has researched records and dug up artifacts where the colonists lived with the Indians in the 16th century. “It was made up. The mystery is over.”

 

Dawson has written a book, published in June, that details his research. It is called “The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island,” and echos many of the sentiments he has voiced for years.

 

A team of archaeologists, historians, botanists, geologists and others have conducted digs on small plots in Buxton and Frisco for 11 years.

 

Dawson and his wife, Maggie, formed the Croatoan Archaeological Society when the digs began. Mark Horton, a professor and archaeologist from England’s University of Bristol leads the project. Henry Wright, professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, is an expert on native history.

 

Teams have found thousands of artifacts 4-6 feet below the surface that show a mix of English and Indian life. Parts of swords and guns are in the same layer of soil as Indian pottery and arrowheads.

 

 

 

[Bang]

Up next: years of painstaking research discover what happens to the light when you close the refrigerator door.

 

~Bang

[Corcaigh]

They lost ANOTHER colony?

 

 

 

 

 

[visionary]

7 minutes ago, Corcaigh said:

They lost ANOTHER colony?

 

Damn. I looked to see if anyone has posted this yet and still missed it.  Oh well.  

[DCSaints_fan]

There was never a lost colony.  The ship sank enroute and the entire thing was all imagined by the colonists just before they died.