Somersby Falls Grinding Grooves

Summary: A large number of axe grinding grooves, in and around the creek above Somersby Falls.

  • Art type/s: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1974
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection 2/5
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical SItes in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“SIm Collection”), Site 2/5

Along Floods Creek (just above Somersby Falls) are a large number of axe grinding grooves, first formally recorded by Ian Sim in 1973.

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