Revelations Ridge Aboriginal Stone Arrangements

Summary: Multiple stone arrangements and grinding grooves on a ridge above Bowens Creek

  • Art type/s: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Stone arrangement
  • Number of sites: 5
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2023

Along a ridge named “Revelations Ridge” by Yuri Bolotin near Bilpin are a number of Aboriginal Stone Arrangements (STA), and Axe Grinding Grooves (AGG). Although the stones are not arranged in any obvious pattern, they appear to have been deliberately placed – and they are a different type of stone to that of the sandstone rock platforms on the ridge.

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There are at least two platforms that appear to have stone arrangements.

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There are two mote potential stone arrangements: one on the edge of a rock platform, where there are three stacked stones.

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Another very small cluster of stones is on the edge of narrow slot, and potentially a marker for one of the only passages down this side of the ridge.

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Further evidence of indigenous occupation are at least multiple axe grinding grooves, around many of the potholes on the extensive rock platform.

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