# Copper earring, Elizabethan Gardens, Roanoke Island

> Copper earring, Elizabethan Gardens, Roanoke Island

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/artifacts/ART0CQCCNH043G5/copper-earring-elizabethan-gardens-roanoke-island  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page)  

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**ART** 0CQCCNH043G5·Artifact · object

# Copper earring, Elizabethan Gardens, Roanoke Island

Objectpublisher; linked, not copiedEuropean copper; before 1586 by context

[Cite]

**Not kept here.** This copy isn't ours to show. [See it where it's published](https://www.firstcolonyfoundation.org/news/scientific-tests-confirm-archaeology-discovery/).

First Colony Foundation, 1586. publisher; linked, not copied

## Copies 1

**Photo** First Colony Foundation · firstcolonyfoundation.org · 2024-08-14 · publisher; linked, not copiedPrimary source: [Lost Colony: scientific tests confirm First Colony archaeological discovery](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CQCBZA25P9C/lost-colony-scientific-tests-confirm-first-colony)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://www.firstcolonyfoundation.org/news/scientific-tests-confirm-archaeology-discovery/)

## Where it was made

[Roanoke Island, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CQCC0H42FS5/roanoke-island-fort-raleigh-national-historic-site) · Island

## Sources 1

- [Lost Colony: scientific tests confirm First Colony archaeological discovery](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CQCBZA25P9C/lost-colony-scientific-tests-confirm-first-colony)_SRC_

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Copper earring, Elizabethan Gardens, Roanoke Island [Artifact ART0CQCCNH043G5]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0CQCCNH043G5
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Key

**ART** 0CQCCNH043G5

Kind

Object

Held by

First Colony Foundation (collection)

Dated

European copper; before 1586 by context

Licence

publisher; linked, not copied

Place

[Roanoke Island, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CQCC0H42FS5/roanoke-island-fort-raleigh-national-historic-site)

Part of

[Lost Colony of Roanoke](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke)

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