Media Photo: Underwater Archeology near the Lost Colony

Media Photo: Underwater Archeology near the Lost Colony

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service on May 24, 2010. It is reproduced in full below.

In conjunction with the National Park Service, Professor Gordon Watts from the Institute of Nautical Archeology, along with a team of archeologists, Bill Utley, Josh Daniel and Ray Hayes, are performing underwater archeology work for several days adjacent to the shoreline in an area known as "Barrel Beach" near The Lost Colony complex. The team is searching for evidence of the first English Settlement site to further examine the geophysical anomalies previously found in the area. Several Indian artifacts have been discovered in the area.

Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service

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