What is it?

Stands about 2 1/2 feet high, kind of a bowl at the top where the wife put flowers.

A grindstone?

Fossilized Alien eggcase. The crab snake thing is gone.

A rock.

Part of Stonehenge

A worn down grindstone - castoff.

We have a bunch around here , wheel shaped about 2'-3' diameter. There was a wood refinishing mill around these parts about 100 years ago. Rumor and old pictures show the original size was about 10' in diameter. I would guess the one in the picture is more like the ones found in old water powered grain/flour mills.

OP , are there any old mills/ flowing sources of water close to your location?

Don't know but would make a great mortar for a pestle

The area I live in has a bunch of small towns within a 20 mile radius, back in the day each town it seems had at least one feed mill, some of those feed mills go back many years and some of them had water wheels. I do not know much about this item, that is why I posted a picture, it is hard to see from my picture but the front has like a dip, like some sort of an opening for something to spill out of the bowl is what it looks like to me. This came about from my wife's uncle. He had it in his yard and it supposedly came from a small farm where he was born and raised. He passed away a few months ago and none of the family wanted it, that is all my wife had to hear, she said she would take it. The problem is no one knows what the heck it is. When I first laid my eyes on it I figured it was used to grind something. We had to hire someone to deliver it, lol. I got the bill today and the excavating firm that moved it called it a grinding stone on the bill. Here are two more pictures .

A really mean pig castrater

Base for a parking lot light pole

Theft proof flower pot

Good one BTL, I will tell my wife she has a theft proof flower pot.

Nice pictures.

How heavy is it Jim?

Looks nice.

I don't know how heavy it is, I was not here when it was delivered, my wife said they used the bucket on a backhoe to unload it and place it.

don't shoot low when the grackles are de-heading the marigolds.....would not want to leave any streaks in it.

Look up "hemp mill stone" they were used to mill hemp. That what it looks like to me.

Nope you guys are wrong that is a waterless toilet. Designed to save the planet and wipe out global warming.

Pretty neat Jim, I never saw one like that in this area. Here's a pic I came up with after some googling..




Here's the only kind I ever saw..




Back after the flood of '72, the guy who lived at the end of town had to rebuild his porch and decided to look for the mill stones from the Mexico mill which stood on his property. My granddad worked at the mill in the 19 teens before he went to wwi so he pointed out where he thought they'd be. After some probing with a long steel rod, they dug and came up with them.

Last house on left leaving town heading towards T-Town you'll see them in the porch wall. Two other ones were taken to the campground and stood in the yard.

They were laying just behind the servicemen monument not 15' from 22.