Media Photo: Underwater Archeology near the Lost Colony Contact:
National Park Service, 252-473-2111 x148 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. Did You Know? Contrary to folklore, the potato and
tobacco were never introduced as true discoveries by Sir Walter
Raleigh or his explorers. These were known to people in England
by the 1580s due Spanish traders.