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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yourturntoloveit, post: 73806, member: 57&quot;]Hope some of you find this of interest -- link to the article on-line: </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-roanoke-colonists-lost-and-found/ar-BBlCdZM" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-roanoke-colonists-lost-and-found/ar-BBlCdZM" rel="nofollow">http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-roanoke-colonists-lost-and-found/ar-BBlCdZM</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;But the recent insights from the British Museum’s analysis of the map prompted the foundation to re-examine the 2007 findings from Merry Hill and other dig sites in the region.<b> A key to identifying the earliest colonial life was a type of ceramic known as Surrey-Hampshire Border ware, which was no longer imported to the New World after the Virginia Company dissolved in the early 17th century </b>(emphasis added).&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The reconsideration of the Site X artifacts led to a decision to explore further. With the landowner’s cooperation, archaeologists began sifting the soil again in 2012.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Slowly, the pits gave up their secrets. <b>In just the small areas excavated, the hillside has yielded an unusually high concentration of Border ware </b>(emphasis added) and other colonial artifacts, such as a food-storage jar called a baluster, a hook used to stretch hides, a buckle, and pieces of early gun flintlocks called priming pans. No signs of a fort or other structures have been found, but the aggregate of the artifacts convinced the archaeologists that at least a few of the colonists wound up there.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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