Mount Banks – Explorers Ridge Grinding Grooves

Summary: Five or six Aboriginal axe grinding grooves around a shallow waterhole along the Mount Banks Summit Walking Track.

  • Site type: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
  • Number of motifs: 6
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1988

There are multiple Aboriginal axe grinding groove sites around Mount Banks; this site is to the right of the Mount Banks Summit Walking Track on one of the many large, scattered rock platforms, near the edge of the cliff.

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There are at least four and possibly five or six (some are very shallow) grooves in parallel.

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On the opposite side of these grooves is a single, shorter groove.

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