The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a ...

Dawson and Horton have been digging near the former Roanoke and Croatoan settlements for more than a decade, during which they uncovered numerous weapons and European artifacts on Hatteras Island.

Back then, Croatoan was the original name of nearby ... To understand how remarkable this discovery of Roanoke artifacts is, you have to look more than 400 years back in time to when the mystery ...

the Croatoan Archaeological Society, sponsors an annual dig led by Horton. Since 2013, the team has uncovered a variety of Old World objects mixed in with Native American artifacts in the heart of ...

Image The Croatoan people lived on what is now Hatteras ... Experts said it was difficult to know for sure how colonists’ artifacts got there.Credit...B.Rain Bennett They were also skeptical ...

And many of their colleagues are skeptical that the artifacts can be definitively ... She and her husband Scott, a local teacher, founded the Croatoan Archaeological Society—named after the ...

A new study suggests the Lost Colony of Roanoke assimilated with Native Americans, backed by iron flakes found on Hatteras ...

Croatoan natives including Manteo ... “Every single shovel has artifacts in it,” Dawson said. “This is the closest thing to time travel there is.” North Carolina boat lands 517-pound ...

Croatoan natives including Manteo ... “Every single shovel has artifacts in it,” Dawson said. “This is the closest thing to time travel there is.” ...

One of the only clues remaining at the site was the word "CROATOAN" carved into a palisade. It either referred to Croatoan Island, which is now called Hatteras Island, or the Croatoan Indians.

The excavations, sponsored by the Croatoan Archaeological Society, have so far uncovered several artifacts that may have been made during Elizabethan times, including the handle of a rapier and ...

The pair have “been digging near Buxton on the Croatoan Hatteras Island for more than a decade,” uncovering weapons and other European artifacts in the area, all of which have been put on ...