Native American Relic?!!?!

[ClodChopper]

I found this while metal detecting relics. It was an EYE find. I was sitting on a stump, choking down a Marlboro, when I pulled it from the mud. I've spent the last 7 hours researching it. Plz, correct me if I'm wrong...its a grinding stone!? I found it in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Near the Clinton River. My best pic, doesn't describe this object. The 'bowl' is grapefruit size and is symmetrical.

 

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[BryanM362]

Sure looks like a grinding bowl....

 

[VBCurt]

 

[Breezie]

WOW great eyeball find It certainly looks like a NA grinding bowl to me. Way to go Breezie

 

[kuger]

yep,it is

 

[bigfoot1]

out west here we call them matates..they grind pinion nuts and make a type of tortilla.go back and see if you can find the stone that fits it,usually stored together and upside down...cool find

 

[esquire7oz]

looks like money to me. nice find.

 

[rbecker1967]

Nice find.

 

[ClodChopper]

Thank you everybody!! Defiantly an uber cool find, but I feel like a cheater! One of the coolest thing I have found while metal detecting. Except...its not metal, and it was semi buried in the mud, up side down. The only reason I picked it up, is became it was semi square with a flat bottom. I thought it was part of a stone wall or something?

For those of us who like GPS stuff, this is where I found it.

N 42°41'00.6"
W 083°06'33.9"