FORT RALEIGH
AS RECONSTRUCTED
GUN EMBRASURE RAMP DITCH FIRING STEP GUN PLATFORM STOCKADE TOP OF EMBANKMENT APRIL 1952 NMS-RAL-7003
Comparisons of the fort on Roanoke Island with other forts of the period. (a) The fort on Roanoke Island; (b) the fort built in Puerto Rico by Ralph Lane; (c) a conventional fort with corner bastions.
THE TEMPORARY MUSEUM.
Not far from the fort is a modern log structure used as a temporary museum. Besides housing such objects of historical interest as documents relating to Raleigh’s family, pieces of armor, and the rare facsimile reproductions in color of the remarkable water-color drawings made in America by John White during 1585-86, the museum contains objects which were recovered at the fort site and elsewhere on the grounds of the national historic site during the archeological excavations of 1947, 1948, and 1950.
Drawings of one of the Hans Schultes counters, or jettons, found at the fort. The obverse side reads “Glick Kumt Von Got Ist War” (True good fortune comes from God).
On the reverse side is “Hans Schultez Zu Nurenberg.”