Major excavation planned to find original Raleigh sites

Depending on the availability of financial resources and the approval of the National Park Service, as many as 15 archeologists may converge upon Roanoke Island next month, in hopes of finally finding the exact sites of the Sir Walter Raleigh colonies.

Excavations will be led by Eric Klingelhofer, of Macon, Ga., and Nick Lucetti, of Jamestown, Va., co-vice presidents of the First Colony Foundation.

Phil Evans, Foundation president, of Durham, said the objectives are to “find out where the site exactly is, what it looks like, how big is it and what has been lost to erosion and the ravages of time.”