This mold was NOT found in the corn field! Other Items found nearby were two 2 center's 1826 and an 1836 both only 1 foot apart and only 3 inches deep, I will re-take pictures of other things I found on this farm, I also got a sterling ring made by Kirk & Son, it is a rose ring had a finger bone in it when dug, but thought it was a root and chucked it. The farm is located 8 miles northwest of Antietam. The soil (red clay) non fertilized is very kind to finds made there. The mold was found near the front entrance to the big white house ( which in 1989, was a B&B ) I forgot which general set up cannons in front of the house, and also which side was making charges towards them from the fields in front of them, but we were told that cut horse shoes, glass, square spikes (nails), rocks and pieces of lead were loaded into the cannons and fired at waist level to stop the charges. At the time I really didn't know much about battle sites or techniques about desperate soldiers. When I hunted the farm they only had 100 acres left, the rest had been sold off for schools and churches. Other people in our group found Jeff Davis hat pin, musket butt plates, all kins of bullets, melted lead, enough iron from an exploded mortar to re- assemble it, we also re-located the lost Mortar, it was buried in the back yard under the rose garden. There was also several 3 cent silvers found, a long gun barrel. My mold was not far from the 2 center's that I dug and it was only 5 inches deep, just had a light coating of oxidation on them which I cleaned off with a brass wire brush........Through the years that the farm was in the same hands, they told us that there were battles and skirmishes from French and Indian war, war of 1812, Civil War, etc, etc. The silver ring I found was I.D.'d by a silversmith that was working in the Art Train when it passed through Plymouth Michigan back in 1989. The smith told me that the makers of the ring had been dead 125 years when I had found it.......Sorry about any confusion I may have caused by posting this shot mold........NGE P.S. I am working on the pics now, however I have since sold the 2, 2 center's, But there was about 75 people who saw me dig them up. I think I will have to post the pics in My Best Finds
