Summary: Over fifty Aboriginal grinding grooves along Explorers Ridge near Mount Banks, which was described as a major workshop site.

Below Mount Banks is the largest of multiple axe grinding groove sites which are along the ridge. Within a small area are over fifty grinding grooves, around and inside several shallow potholes.

This area was described as a “major workshop site” in the 1980s.

Near the main depression (which has the most grooves) are several more smaller clusters of grooves.

About thirty metres to the south-west is another shallow pothole, which also has many grinding grooves.

These grooves are mostly inside the depression, and covered by water after rain.

The platform just below the grinding grooves is covered with thousands of small stones; although there is no evidence of this being an Aboriginal stone arrangement or stones used to make axes, it’s unlikely that their occurrence is natural.

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Aboriginal Sites by National Park

Located to the north-west of Sydney, just south of the Dharug and Yengo National Parks, Maroota has a high concentration of (known) Aboriginal sites. Many more Aboriginal heritage sites are located in the Marramarra National Park. The original inhabitants of the area were the Darug people.