As has been indicated, the house sites of the colonists have never been found. They are described as having been decent dwelling houses near the fort and “about” the fort. They were probably built on the ground without basements or firm footings. This would explain the difficulty of finding traces of them. The location of the fort entrance on the west side would suggest that the main settlement lay west of that point, toward the upper end of the island. A more precise statement than this cannot be made at the present time. [Illustration: FORT RALEIGH AS RECONSTRUCTED] GUN EMBRASURE RAMP DITCH FIRING STEP GUN PLATFORM STOCKADE TOP OF EMBANKMENT APRIL 1952 NMS-RAL-7003 [Illustration: _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. [Illustration: _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)._] [Illustration: _On the reverse side is “Hans Schultez Zu Nurenberg.”_] Among the many objects brought to light is a wrought-iron sickle found in the very bottom of the fort ditch. Undoubtedly, it was one of the tools used at the time of the building of the fort, because archeological evidence shows that the loose dirt of the parapet of the fort began to wash back into the ditch almost as soon as the fort was completed. Even more interesting, perhaps, are three copper, or brass, counters, popular in Europe for keeping arithmetical accounts during the sixteenth century, which were found inside the fort. They carry the symbols of Tudor England and on one the name _Hans Schultes Zu Nuremberg_ is readable. Schultes is known to have manufactured such counters in Nuremberg between 1550 and 1574, at which time Nuremberg was a center for the making of counters. He undoubtedly made this one for the English trade, as the Tudor symbols indicate. Likewise, of great interest are the fragments of large Spanish olive jars found in the excavations. As the colonists of 1585-86 traded in Puerto Rico and Haiti, in the Spanish West Indies, for goods and supplies on their way to Roanoke Island, it was to be expected that objects of this type would be found.