# First Colony Foundation 2026: The Lost Colony is Found! How We Did It. > First Colony Foundation, 2026. 15 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The Foundation's claim as of 2026. Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CQCBYTE4G59/the-lost-colony-is-found-how-we-did-it Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Lost Colony of Roanoke](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke)First Colony Foundation 2026 **0** # The Lost Colony is Found! How We Did It. First Colony Foundation, 2026. _firstcolonyfoundation.org_. The Foundation's account (4 June 2026): in 2012 the British Museum found a fort symbol under a patch on John White's map at the west end of Albemarle Sound, in today's Bertie County; Site X, at the mouth of a navigable creek near the Algonquian town of Mettaquem, gave English sherds of possible 16th-century date and a late 16th-century lead cloth seal from Augsburg; upstream Site Y gave more Elizabethan artifacts and no Native ones; it concludes the two were parts of a dispersed farm settlement along the Chowan River. **Lost Colony of Roanoke** Web pageCopy of **[Lead cloth seal from Augsburg, Site X](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/artifacts/ART0CQCCN9670YT/lead-cloth-seal-from-augsburg-site-x)** Checked against the original0 ## What it's used for here The Foundation's claim as of 2026. ## Cited by on this site 15 records [The colonists moved about fifty miles west to the Albemarle Sound and Chowan River and settled in dispersed…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/answers/ANS0CQCC9AC0EJH/the-colonists-moved-about-fifty-miles-west-to-the-albemarle) Answer ANS [Yes; they are parts of the colonists' dispersed settlement along the Chowan.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/answers/ANS0CQCCFXA1S7A/yes-they-are-parts-of-the-colonists-dispersed-settlement) Answer ANS [John White's map "La Virginea Pars", with its two paper patches](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/artifacts/ART0CQCCMHR26H4/john-whites-map-la-virginea-pars-with-its-two-paper-patches) ART [Lead cloth seal from Augsburg, Site X](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/artifacts/ART0CQCCN9670YT/lead-cloth-seal-from-augsburg-site-x) ART [Lead cloth seal from Augsburg, Site X: photo](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/copies/CPY0CQCCP8E28QQ/lead-cloth-seal-from-augsburg-site-x-photo) CPY [A fort symbol lies under a patch on White's map at the west end of Albemarle Sound.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/evidence/EVD0CQCC9T016D9/a-fort-symbol-lies-under-a-patch-on-whites-map-at-the-west) Evidence EVD [A late 16th-century Augsburg cloth seal at Site X suggests civilians rather than soldiers.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/evidence/EVD0CQCCG5435PR/a-late-16th-century-augsburg-cloth-seal-at-site-x-suggests) Evidence EVD [Site X gave English sherds possibly of the late 16th century and an Augsburg cloth seal; Site Y gave more…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/evidence/EVD0CQCCA1T51HY/site-x-gave-english-sherds-possibly-of-the-late-16th-century) Evidence EVD [The Foundation describes Sites X and Y as parts of a dispersed farm settlement.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/evidence/EVD0CQCCCFY02K0/the-foundation-describes-sites-x-and-y-as-parts-of-a) Evidence EVD [The fort symbol on White's map lies at the west end of Albemarle Sound.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/evidence/EVD0CQCCGMR3CAF/the-fort-symbol-on-whites-map-lies-at-the-west-end-of) Evidence EVD [The British Museum reveals a fort symbol under a patch on White's map](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/events/EVT0CQCC55J16DG/the-british-museum-reveals-a-fort-symbol-under-a-patch-on) EVT [The First Colony Foundation declares the Lost Colony found on the Chowan River](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/events/EVT0CQCC6CM0X1W/the-first-colony-foundation-declares-the-lost-colony-found) EVT [The Lost Colony of Roanoke](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke) The mystery article MYS [British Museum](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/organisations/ORG0CQCC2Z856WB/british-museum) ORG [Are Sites X and Y on the Chowan River the colonists' settlement?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/questions/QST0CQCC7KP2Q3X/are-sites-x-and-y-on-the-chowan-river-the-colonists) Question QST ## Cite it ``` First Colony Foundation (2026). The Lost Colony is Found! How We Did It.. firstcolonyfoundation.org. https://www.firstcolonyfoundation.org/news/lost-colony-is-found/ ``` [Read it free at firstcolonyfoundation.org](https://www.firstcolonyfoundation.org/news/lost-colony-is-found/) Key **SRC** 0CQCBYTE4G59 Kind Web page Rights unknown Kept 29 Oct 2026, for editors Checked Against the published original Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CQCBYTE4G59/the-lost-colony-is-found-how-we-did-it/csl.json)