So are you inferring that Al Pacino may have placed this concrete cone at
the site?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Myers [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 11:48 AM
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> Subject:      Re: Witches and Corners
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> Perhaps it relates to the corners of cemeteries. While monitoring an
> excavation a week or so ago I found a "modern" artifact of dubious use. It
> was a concrete rounded cone with five or six small blue beads around the
> top,
> which had a corroded iron "unident" think stuck into it. It had an
> Anthropomorphic face on it made of a cowrie shell as the smile of the
> "Mona
> Lisa" and two other small shell as the eyes barely above the level of the
> concrete. Romans had terrazzo concrete but this looks more like ours. The
> whole artifact complete with stem of iron sticking out of the top is about
> four (4) inches tall with an unfinished base, that is it might have been
> molded out of a chain link fence cap but appears larger. This was found in
> the SE corner of the Old West Farms Soldier Cemetery in the Bronx, NY
> where
> veterans of four wars and others are interred. Six or seven blocks away Al
> Pacino the actor grew up on the street that intersects this cemetery with
> 180th Street, Bryant Ave. Possibly a Caribbean origin for this little
> "dupee?" Any one seen one like it?
>
> George J. Myers, Jr.
>
> PS. There were many pennies of the "Lincoln Memorial" type thrown or
> strewn
> over the cemetery, any one have any experience with this? A sawed off
> shovel,
> just the handle and part of the shaft?