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 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Witches and Corners > > 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?