Video Clips
InteractFt. Raleigh Photo Gallery
Incident Room
Site Updates
Dig Diaries
My First Archaeology Dig
Colin shares his impressions of his first week on Time Team.
How to Section a Posthole
Eric explains what can be learned from excavating a posthole.
Meeting a Rock Star Antiquarian!
Find out why Julie was so excited to meet colonial scholar Noel Hume.
Fort Raleigh, North Carolina
It is one of the oldest mysteries in American history: What happened to the "Lost Colony" of Fort Raleigh? In 1587 the English sent a group of hardy, hopeful colonists to make a go of it in the New World. But when English ships returned with supplies just three years later, they found the settlement empty and the colonists gone. Only one clue was left behind: the word "Croatoan" carved in the gatepost of their fort. To this day, the fate of the colonists and the location of the original settlement remain a mystery. Time Team America travels to Roanoke Island to look for evidence of the colony, find out what it looked like, and learn what life might have been like for those first English colonists.
Why We Went There
Joining the centuries-long search for Ft. Raleigh.
Historical Background
More about the iconic story of the Lost Colony.