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Not Much to Look At, Much To Imagine

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD The Place Long Presented As Where the First English Baby Was Born Is Really a Multi-Ring Circus of History

Annette Laing
Sep 18, 2022
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Circle of lawn-covered earthworks
A circle of mounds rebuilt by 20th century archaeologists on the exact site of earthworks built by the first English explorers on Roanoke Island, North Carolina (then part of Virginia) What was it for? Storing the gunpowder and food, maybe? They didn’t live here, so nobody is really sure. Image: Annette Laing, 2022
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