# First Colony Foundation 2024: Lost Colony: scientific tests confirm First Colony archaeological discovery

> First Colony Foundation, 2024. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Evidence for the Native village and the 1584–1586 contacts, not for the 1587…

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# Lost Colony: scientific tests confirm First Colony archaeological discovery

First Colony Foundation, 2024. _firstcolonyfoundation.org_.

Press release (14 August 2024): analysis at James Madison University's Madison Accelerator Laboratory found a copper earring from the Elizabethan Gardens dig on Roanoke Island to be of European copper; the Foundation reads it as a gift or trade item of 1584–1586 at the Algonquian village of Roanoac.

**Lost Colony of Roanoke** Web pageCopy of **[Copper earring, Elizabethan Gardens, Roanoke Island](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/artifacts/ART0CQCCNH043G5/copper-earring-elizabethan-gardens-roanoke-island)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Evidence for the Native village and the 1584–1586 contacts, not for the 1587 colony.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[Copper earring, Elizabethan Gardens, Roanoke Island](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/artifacts/ART0CQCCNH043G5/copper-earring-elizabethan-gardens-roanoke-island)

ART

[Copper earring, Elizabethan Gardens, Roanoke Island: photo](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/copies/CPY0CQCCPR267W1/copper-earring-elizabethan-gardens-roanoke-island-photo)

CPY

[Tests show an Elizabethan Gardens earring is of European copper](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/events/EVT0CQCC5X06CCE/tests-show-an-elizabethan-gardens-earring-is-of-european)

EVT

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

The mystery article

MYS

[First Colony Foundation](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/organisations/ORG0CQCC2QE3TZK/first-colony-foundation)

ORG

## Cite it

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First Colony Foundation (2024). Lost Colony: scientific tests confirm First Colony archaeological discovery. firstcolonyfoundation.org. https://www.firstcolonyfoundation.org/news/scientific-tests-confirm-archaeology-discovery/
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