NORFOLK, Va. – Bones discovered four years ago at the site of America's first permanent English settlement could be those of Jamestown's unsung founder, a knight or a captain. A tooth analysis did not ...

Scientists are looking for the DNA match of a Suffolk man who established the first English-speaking colony in America in 1607. Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of Bartholomew ...

Scientists’ hopes that DNA testing would identify a nearly 400-year-old skeleton found at Jamestown have been dashed, but they remain confident that the remains are those of an unsung founder of North ...

Results of radar surveys conducted in two Suffolk churches show that archaeologists have probably identified the location of the graves of two maternal relatives of Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, the ...

JAMESTOWN – The name of a man buried with a captain’s ceremonial staff about 400 years ago is still a mystery, after tests on a tooth suggested that it may be Bartholomew Gosnold but left open the ...

Shelley parish church has become the centre of world-wide media attention as a team of Suffolk archaeologists begin a scientific search for the DNA of Bartholomew Gosnold. CLICK ON THE RIGHT SIDE TO ...

Archaeologists believe they may have discovered the skeleton of the man considered the main force behind the first permanent English settlement in America. The grave's placement inside the ...

A scientific search for the DNA of the man who founded America is to take place in Suffolk. In 1607, Captain Bartholomew Gosnold established an English speaking colony in Virginia, which eventually ...

As the story goes, fishermen and other explorers saw “all the little buzzards,” not knowing that they were actually osprey, the fish-eating bird of prey also called a sea hawk, river hawk and fish ...

Bones discovered four years ago at the site of America's first permanent English settlement could be those of Jamestown's unsung founder, a knight or a captain. A tooth analysis did not rule out that ...

You are in: Suffolk > History > Bartholomew Gosnold > Jamestown: The Birth of a Nation Replica ships at Jamestown settlement By Kate Arkell In May 1607, just over 100 men and boys arrived on the East ...