A clue discovered just a few years ago on a centuries-old map has led researchers back to a North Carolina site in hopes of discovering whether the men, women and children of North Carolina’s “Lost Colony” settled there. In 2012, researchers with the First Colony Foundation and the British Museum announced they had found a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from Roanoke Island in the late 16th century. The clue was on the “Virginea Pars” map of Virginia and North Carolina created by explorer John White in the 1580s and owned by the British Museum since 1866. Attached to the map were two patches, one of which appeared to correct a mistake on the map. The other – in what is modern-day Bertie County in northeastern North Carolina – hid what appears to be a fort. Another symbol, appearing to be the very faint image of a different kind of fort, is drawn on top of the patch. The American and British scholars believed the fort symbol could indicate where the settlers went. The map prompted archaeologists with the foundation to re-examine artifacts they had found years earlier on private land near the site. Although they haven’t found a fort, they have found enough artifacts of the correct time period to cause excitement.