This is the site of the Powhatan settlement on Purtan Bay and where Captain John Smith that Pocahontas saved his life. Eye witness accounts of the Werowocomoco told how the chief resided in a house some distance from the James River. Archeologists have discovered trenches in the sighted area as well as soil stains. Later, someone recalled the symbols on the Pedro de Zunica Map of 1608; a triangular mark represented
Jamestown's three-sided fort, but the site of a Powhatan village had a symbol that looked like two capitol letters D, one made inside the other, with three dots in the middle and surrounded by dots. The shape of the Ds approximate the shape of the ditches.
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