Muck on the floor of Roanoke Sound could harbor long-sought evidence of the Lost Colony and other 16th-century English activity, as an archaeology team worked to uncover the secrets time has swept aside.
With advanced, more sensitive technology available to look under the water, Gordon Watts, director of the Washington, N.C.-based Institute for International Maritime Research, said he had hoped by week’s end to explore at least 10 percent of the 230 targeted anomalies hidden in the sound off the north end of the island.
But Watts said “wretched weather” has made the mission slower than he had expected.
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