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February 05, 2005
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New evidence may help to locate the exact location of and thereby better understand the disappearance of the ill-fated colony at Roanoke.
Working off a copy of the original document that was located at the Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain, James Lavin, professor emeritus with the department of modern languages and literature at The College of William and Mary, said that Spanish pilot Pedro Diaz described a “flimsy” wooden fort that is “in the water,” possibly indicating a moat, and that it was located in a wet, marshy spot.
That could mean that the elusive “Cittie of Raleigh” – which housed Sir Walter Raleigh’s 1587 colony of 117 men, women and children – had been situated near Mother Vineyard or Shallowbag Bay, miles away from the once-presumed location at what is now Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Lavin, a Spanish Golden Age scholar, said that Diaz had been held captive on an English ship and was relating what he had been told by an unnamed witness on Roanoke Island.
That could mean that the elusive “Cittie of Raleigh” – which housed Sir Walter Raleigh’s 1587 colony of 117 men, women and children – had been situated near Mother Vineyard or Shallowbag Bay, miles away from the once-presumed location at what is now Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Lavin, a Spanish Golden Age scholar, said that Diaz had been held captive on an English ship and was relating what he had been told by an unnamed witness on Roanoke Island.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 5, 2005 05:11 PM
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