# Vankevich 2020: Was 'The Lost Colony' really lost or just decamped to Hatteras Island?

> Peter Vankevich, 2020. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The Hatteras case as its proponents make it.

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# Was 'The Lost Colony' really lost or just decamped to Hatteras Island?

Peter Vankevich, 2020. _Island Free Press_.

Review (28 December 2020) of Scott Dawson's book The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island: Horton's Croatoan Archaeological Project dug near Buxton from 2009 to 2018 with Bristol students and local volunteers; Dawson argues the colonists moved to Croatoan, whose people were friendly; notes the Bertie County digs and the Chesapeake theory.

**Lost Colony of Roanoke** Web pageChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The Hatteras case as its proponents make it.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[The main body went north to the Chesapeake Bay, their original destination.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/answers/ANS0CQCCAHE3A86/the-main-body-went-north-to-the-chesapeake-bay-their)

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[Mark Horton's Croatoan Archaeological Project digs near Buxton](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/events/EVT0CQCC83A6ZXS/mark-hortons-croatoan-archaeological-project-digs-near)

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[Mark Horton](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/people/FIG0CQCC27T2E5M/mark-horton)

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

The mystery article

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## Cite it

```
Vankevich, P. (2020). Was 'The Lost Colony' really lost or just decamped to Hatteras Island?. Island Free Press. https://islandfreepress.org/?p=43753
```

[Read it free at islandfreepress.org](https://islandfreepress.org/?p=43753)

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