Peak Hill (Porto Ridge) Stone Arrangement

Summary: Multiple piles of stones on a small rock platform are likely to be an Aboriginal stone arrangement.

  • Site type: Stone arrangement
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Partially Destroyed
  • Year first recorded: 2012
  • Originally Recorded by: Bob Conroy

On a small rock platform on Porto Ridge along the informal trail to Peak Hill near Brooklyn is a series of small rock piles, which are thought to be an Aboriginal stone arrangement. The stone piles are not natural, but all appear to have been disturbed.

1X3A4894 LR Peak Hill (Porto Ridge) Stone Arrangement
1X3A4895 LR Peak Hill (Porto Ridge) Stone Arrangement
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