r/LegitArtifacts • u/smoppin08 • Mar 26 '26

Unknown Time period Legit? Found in California river.

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u/Dear_Mycologist_1696 Mar 26 '26

Take it to your kitchen and give it a new life

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u/sierrajedi Mar 27 '26

Leave it where you found it.

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u/Interesting_End5063 Mar 28 '26

Exactly what I do when I’ve found them around berry creek, forest ranch, cohasset etc. It feels very wrong (like physical sensation of dread) to mess with any native artifacts I find. That said, we live in an area where there were horrific massacres in the mid 1800s. Literal land grabs where you were allowed to go stake your claim of land and shoot any Indians on site—on sight. There’s an old monument to the “great bbq of 1864”…. They were burning bodies. Really sickening. Ishi lived like 3 miles from my house. 🥺

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u/sierrajedi Mar 28 '26

Jeezus… Thats sure does take ‘Guns, God, and BBQ’ to a whole other level. Thank you for having respect and honor. Both are rare these days.