Hawkesbury Track Grinding Grooves

Summary: Multiple Aboriginal axe grinding grooves on a large rock platform along the Hawkesbury Track.

  • Art type/s: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
  • Number of motifs: 20
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Year first recorded: 1966
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff

Thousands of bushwalkers each year pass these Aboriginal grinding grooves, which are “hidden in plain sight” on a large rock platform along the Hawkesbury Track on the Great North Walk. The platform is below the distinctive Mount Wondabyne – once called Sugarloaf Peak after its shape.

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The numerous grinding grooves are along the edge of the platform, near a small creek.

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Along the edge of the creek are pecked water channels.

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