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Adsos Letter

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Thu May 3, 2012, 04:16 PM May 2012

North Carolina, British researchers find clue to location of Lost Colony.

Source: newsobserver.com
BY JAY PRICE

CHAPEL HILL -- Perhaps the best clue in more than 420 years to North Carolina’s most famous mystery has just been revealed.

The remains of the Lost Colony, it turns out, could sit under an Arnold Palmer-designed golf course in Bertie County.

Researchers at the British Museum in London, acting at the request of a group of historians and archaeologists here, have found a symbol hidden on an ancient map that could show where members of the English colony established on Roanoke Island in 1587 moved.


Representatives of the First Colony Foundation and scholars at the British Museum – who appeared via video webcast – announced the discovery Thursday morning in a news conference at UNC Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library.

Link: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/01/2041723/north-carolina-and-british-researchers.html#disqus_thread
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Roanoke is one of the stops on a two-week road trip we'll be taking the last half of this month. Never been there, and we're really looking forward to it.

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