Found a head while metal detecting.

[mastereagle22]

Got to go out for a little while tonight and found this head 8 inches down! I have No idea who it is but I can tell you a Civil War Era Cemetery is very close to where I found this, and before anyone says anything I was in a local park where kids were playing basketball and skateboarding. I think this probably washed down the hill from the Cemetery as the Cemetery Has been vandalized many times in the past. There is a cemetery currator and I will be calling them in the next day or so to see if someone lost their head, pardon the pun.

Before then anyone have any ideas besides I am doomed for all time

 

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[Montana Jim]

Found A head while metal detecting.

It kinda looks like a Pope...

 

[AU24K]

Mastereagle, the profile made me immediately think of Lincoln. Hope that helps.
Scott

 

[WHEELS1973]

Almost positive its John Paul II (1978-2005) I didnt post a pic but it looks alot like a picture i googled of him from the 70's

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

By the way, the profile made me immediately think of Lincoln. Hope that helps.
Scott

It doesnt look anything like Lincoln to me. Not Abe... that is.

 

[ivan salis]

oh by the way yes your doomed---doomed to finding graveyard stuff if you keep looking in a graveyards "wash out" area (down hill area where "things" from the poorly tended graveyard (on a hill above) tend to "flow" to when it rains hard "washing" things out of the graveyard down the hill ---be careful or you might find something you'd really rather not find---those old wooden caskets rot and "dem bones" go acreeping down de hill---AHHHAAHHHAAHHH ---just a freindly warning cuz I know you get creeped out by the thought of finding any such "things"--- hunting that spot is like hunting in a mine feild as far as running across dead folks bones and such ----Ivan

 

[DCMatt]

I agree - John Paul II. You found a Pope on a slope.

DCMatt

 

[mastereagle22]

I agree - John Paul II. You found a Pope on a slope.

DCMatt

Thank you so much that made me laugh. Man some people are just looking to take offense.

I was purposely looking in this area because as I said the Cemetery has been vanalized and I will turn over any items I find to the curator as this is an old Cemetery and on the National Registry. I WILL NEVER go onto property of a place that is on the Registry, the area this was found in is a public park and as I said I am going to make an appointment and return this to the Curator. We live in a town for some strange reason, where a several public parks are placed very near Cemeteries. I will not ignore those spots for potential hunting areas just because a cemetery is close. And Ivan I have come to terms with things and view them differently now. If I can return part of a statue that was destoryed by vandals to the cemetery that is a good thing.

Also does anyone know how to ask the mods to change the heading on a post (pardon the pun it was not intended)?

 

[Monty]

I don't see anything wrong wilth your post. I guess some people just have a dirty mind? Very interesting and unusual find. Perhaps it came off of a trophy or something? Monty

 

[Green Frost]

It reminds me of some elderly person, not so much of Abe, and a little bit of the pope but not alot...just the nose, and eyes a little.

 

[ivan salis]

returning the part of a vandalized statue back to where it belongs is a good deed --one that I myself would do actually---the "statue" head might be a "john paul type thing" if the person was catholic ---he was quite popular and the head does have a kind of a cross type etched on the top --where a papal "cover" like john paul often wore would have been ---a real shame that some folks have no respect for the dead ---may the spirits of those who's grave they have vandelized torment them and may the lord punish them for such heartless acts---until they change their ways and make amends--Ivan

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Maybe it came off of something like this

 

[ivan salis]

yah thats what I'm talkimg about ---see how its got a skullcap type cover---looks like if it was hit real hard it might just come off---hummm---Ivan

 

[stefen]

I agree - John Paul II. You found a Pope on a slope.

DCMatt

If he found a Pope on a stick would it be a popcycle?

 

[justine093]

definatly a pope.

 

[mastereagle22]

Well the main reason I am leaning toward Pope is because all of the pictures of Saints that I look up have facial hair and this item has no facial hair. The only person I see in images that does not have facial hair are the Popes. Anyway I cannot even begin to guess age until I know who the person it was modeled after.

 

[artemis moon]

That head seems to be older than Pope John Paul II. What are the dates on some of the older headstones in the cemetary? Is it a Catholic cemetary? What is the material that the head is made of? So many questions, I know.

 

[mastereagle22]

Old Lorimier Cemetery was established in 1808 by Louis Lorimier. The location of the cemetery is 500 North Fountain Street . There is believed to be more than 6,500 burials in the cemetery, most being unmarked. A sidewalk serves as a north – south dividing line in the cemetery. It is said that Catholics are buried on the south and Protestants are buried on the north. The east slope is believed to be the burial grounds of African-American persons. It has been recorded that as many as 1,200 soldiers from the Civil War were buried there.

courtesy of: http://www.cityofcapegirardeau.org/ourdepartments/parksandrecreation/cemetery/default.aspx

This item was found north of the cemetery grounds.

 

[Jeffro]

perhaps it came off a walking stick or cane?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

St, Francis is occasionally depected bare-faced.

Pope Blessed John XXIII (someone in New England was selling these statues. He died in 1963 and would be my vote for your head).

Not sure which pope this one was.