From the May 4th Yahoo! News, AP "Researchers say they have new clue to Lost Colony" by Martha Waggoner.
A 425-year-old map may have a clue to what happened to North Carolina's Lost Colony. Experts from the First Colony Foundation and London's British Museum held a joint-conference at the University of North Carolina to reveal the new findings.
Explorer John White's "Virginea Pars" map of Virginia and North Carolina was made in the 1590s and has been at the British Museum since 1866. It seems to give proof that the colony moved westward up the Albemarle Sound to the confluence of the Chowan and Roanoke rivers.
Two patches are attached to the map. One appears to cover a mistake that was corrected, under the other one, however, there appears to be a symbol for a fort in modern-day Bertie County.
That land is currently privately-owned and some of the site might be under a golf course and residential communication, making excavations not likely to begin anytime soon.
Fore On to History. --DaCoot
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