Lapstone Creek Grinding Grooves

Summary: Three Aboriginal axe grinding grooves sites along Lapstone Creek, including a large plaform in the creek bed with ten grooves.

Along the Lapstone Creek in the Lower Blue Mountains is a large rock platform, which has multiple sets of Aboriginal axe grinding grooves (at least ten).

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The grooves are near a number of natural potholes.

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There is one small water channel which may be natural, but could be an Aboriginal grooved channel.

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A few hundred metres upstream is another, single grinding groove near a couple of potholes.

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Much further upstream are a couple more grinding grooves.

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