Archeology at Fort Raleigh

National Park Service, 2026. nps.gov.

The history of excavation at the park: Talcott Williams in 1895, J. C. Harrington's location of the earthwork in 1947 and its reconstruction in 1950, finds including a barrel (1982), a copper necklace (2008) and tin-glazed earthenware (2016). States that the colony's location remains unknown and that erosion has cut almost half a mile from Roanoke Island, so the site may be under water.

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What it's used for here

The state of the search on Roanoke Island itself.

Cited by on this site 2 records

J. C. Harrington locates the Fort Raleigh earthwork

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The Lost Colony of Roanoke

The mystery article

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Cite it

National Park Service (2026). Archeology at Fort Raleigh. nps.gov. https://www.nps.gov/fora/learn/historyculture/archeology.htm

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