Oaks Trail Grinding Grooves

Summary: Multiple sets of shallow grinding grooves on a rock platform near the Oaks Trail

  • Site type: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
  • Number of motifs: 10
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2022

Near the Oaks Trail in the Blue Mountains is a long ridge-top rock with multiple sets of axe grinding grooves, in shallow depressions in the sandstone.

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