Unearthed Secrets: Shocking New Artifacts May Finally Reveal the Fate of the Mysterious Roanoke Colony
During a recent speech at the Roanoke River Maritime Museum in Plymouth, North Carolina, author, museum proprietor, and president of the Croatoan Archaeological Society, Scott Dawson, announced his discovery. Together with fellow archaeologist and TV presenter Mark Horton, Dawson had been searching Hatteras for more evidence to support his theory about what happened to the “Lost Colony of Roanoke”: that it was never lost at all.
During their excavations, they came across the hammerscale, which the Daily Mail notes are “barely larger than a grain of rice.” These shavings are a byproduct of iron-forging techniques that, Horton and Dawson say, would have been unknown to the Croatoan tribe.
English settlers, however, would have been using the blacksmithing techniques that produced hammerscale. If Dawson is correct, this could be the “empirical, physical evidence” that solidifies his theory about the Roanoke mystery once and for all.
The Supposed Mystery Behind The “Lost Colony” Of Roanoke — And Why It Doesn’t Make Sense
Wikimedia CommonsIllustration of the discovery of “CROATOAN” carved into a tree at the Roanoke Colony.
The mystery behind the Roanoke Colony has long been a foundational piece of American mythology.
As the story goes, in 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh established the colony in present-day North Carolina. About 120 people settled in the colony — but just five years later, none of them remained. When an English ship visited in 1590, the settlement was intact, yet the people had seemingly vanished all at once, as if into thin air.
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