Artifacts found in our backyard/woods.

rockcrazy · Sep 1, 2015

Hi all,
My husbands has been looking for arrow head in southern Michigan for many years. I am a rock hound, we have been digging a gravel vein in our woods for a while now. Rocks we have found are Agate, Chert, Calcedony, Jasper and Flint. We've also found things we know are artifacts, and something's we're not sure of.

Here are the items we found that we know are artifacts:

Here are the ones we're not sure of:

We also found this rock, nothing like the other rock we have been finding in the area. Maybe some type of ceremonial rock?:

Your help is very appreciated!

quito · Sep 1, 2015

Interesting pieces! Some of the pieces in the first pic are completely natural. They are called Omarolluks. Omars for short. Google them and see. Some were used by the natives, and some of yours show it.

eastTNJoe · Sep 1, 2015

I'm no expert, but believe the large stone with the indention on pic 4 is a nutting stone. The basin looks bigger than the one I've seen, but I'm sure others will chime in with their expertise and opinion.

Treasure_Hunter · Sep 1, 2015

Last 5 pictures are just rocks, first picture are geofacts.

rockcrazy · Sep 1, 2015

Thanks for the information. That's what we were thinking. I just did some research and found out the flat stone could be a Metate or Mealing stone. I'm so excited! I finally found something other than the Omars and chunks of flint. I'm going to keep digging. The other pictures that look like only a rock appears to us to have been worked. I couldn't get a good picture of it....just kept looking like a "rock". Or we just want it to be something.....LOL I still think I'll keep it with the good stuff.