RUTLAND — The burial place of O. Razor remains unknown, despite the town's best efforts. Bob Perry from Topographix, a New Hampshire-based company that specializes in locating graves using ground penetrating radar, brought his equipment to the lower Rutland common July 7 in an attempt to locate the elusive 1972 O. Razor time capsule. 

Perry is an expert in this field and has traveled the world with his GPR equipment. He is currently involved in a television series highlighting his work. He has a remarkable history of success.

A small tombstone, on the town common for 50 years, had marked the location where a stainless steel time capsule was said to have been buried.

The 250th anniversary period, during which the capsule was reportedly buried, was rife with shenanigans from rival groups celebrating their own centennials, including the ransoming of artifacts from other towns. 

The first effort to locate and unearth the 1972 capsule was unsuccessful, revealing only a solid concrete block.

Perry began his search by coning off a grid section of the common, where witnesses last reported the infamous 6-foot wood razor and capsule were buried.

The GPR equipment detected anomalies in the ground and indicated their depths. Flags marking the anomalies revealed a linear pattern, indicating that these were water lines.

One other anomaly, approximately 18 inches below the surface, was detected next to the tree where the O. Razor marker was. Participants in the search effort requested a shovel from the D.P.W., which arrived soon thereafter. Diggers soon discovered the anomaly: a thick tree root.

Perry said that his high-tech equipment would "indicate," or react on a capsule made of stainless steel or like material. But after a thorough search of the grid, he reported with confidence that no such stainless steel canister was present. 

Tricentennial Committee member Jeff Stillings reports with reasonable assurance that the O. Razor time capsule of 1972 has disappeared from the town common.