Linden Ridge Isolated Grinding Grooves

Summary: Two small, adjoining rock platforms along the Linden Ridge Firetrail have shallow axe grinding grooves.

  • Art type/s: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1993
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection, Site 10 (Blue Mountains)
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical SItes in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“SIm Collection”), Site 10 (Blue Mountains), p.66

Along the Linden Ridge Firetrail are a series of small rock platforms, which have some shallow axe grinding grooves. The shallow pothole below has a single, shallow groove.

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An adjoining plartform has three shallow grooves.

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There are eight grinding grooves sites along Linden Ridge recorded by Ian Sim, and some additional sites recorded later.

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