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Updates from the field, June 8, 1999

	A volunteer excavator and Larry Hamilton, metal detector supervisor, display a pistol ball the team recovered in a corn field.
	A Vinton, Ohio, volunteer excavator and detector operator Keith Bailey show their Spencer carbine ball, one of more than 350 field specimens recorded through Day 11 of the project.
	Bailey and Heidelberg anthropology student Kevin Nolan find a Sharps carbine ball in the same field.
	In 1863, this road led west from Portland through a deep ravine. The narrow road and steep cliffs of the ravine forced Morgan to abandon his baggage and artillery and slowed his escape from the battlefield
	A reporter and photographer from the The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) interview Heidelberg archaeologist Dr. G. Michael Pratt at the bottom of Lauck's Run. Morgan escaped this ravine with only a remnant of his command. Col. Basil Duke and his men were forced to surrender near here.
	With temperatures again over 90, the survey crew battled heat, humidity, dust and haze, yet recovered more than 40 artifacts today.

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