Do the Hatteras Island excavations show that colonists lived at Croatoan?
Most likely: no; the English objects are later trade goods or heirlooms reaching a Croatoan townAhead on the evidence, not yet confirmed. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
Where it stands
Three answers have been proposed. No; the English objects are later trade goods or heirlooms reaching a Croatoan town. leads, with evidence 2 for: partly supported by its tests. Two are still possible.
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History
- Lawler puts forward: no; the English objects are later trade goods or heirlooms reaching a Croatoan town.
- Lawler: horton reported an Elizabethan-type rapier hilt.For: Yes; a permanent forge and English tools in a 16th-century layer show colonists living there.
- Lawler: the ring is brass, of a mass-produced type, found among artifacts of 1670–1720.For: No; the English objects are later trade goods or heirlooms reaching a Croatoan town.
- Lawler: critics date the Hatteras finds to the mid to late 17th century.For: No; the English objects are later trade goods or heirlooms reaching a Croatoan town.
- Crist puts forward: yes; a permanent forge and English tools in a 16th-century layer show colonists living there.
- Crist: hammerscale and adjacent animal teeth said to date to the late 1500s.For: Yes; a permanent forge and English tools in a 16th-century layer show colonists living there.
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