Emu Shelter Grooves and Charcoal Art

Summary: A set of Aboriginal grinding grooves in a creek above Glenbrook Creek. Nearby is a charcoal figure drawn on shallow shelter in a low cliff-line.

  • Site type: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting
  • Number of sites: 2
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Indeterminate figure
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1975

Along an unnamed creek in the lower Blue Mountains are a set of grinding grooves, near some potholes in the creek bed.

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There are at least six axe grinding grooves.

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Above the creek along a low cliff-line is some Aboriginal rock art.

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It’s not clear what the figure, drawn in charcoal, represents.

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