Topham Trail AGGs

Summary: Axe grinding grooves and water channels along a creek below the Topham Trail.

  • Site type: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2019
  • Originally Recorded by: C. Douchkov
  • Jo McDonald, Dreamtime superhighway : an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange (2006).

Along a small creek near the Topham Trail are a few Axe Grinding Grooves (AGGs).

  • AWAT5110 LR Topham Trail AGGs
  • AWAT5118 LR Topham Trail AGGs

Between some of the potholes in the creek bed are channels, which direct water seepage into and around the potholes. Research by Jo McDonald found that: “water channels occur on a small proportion of engraving sites (c.3%). All sites with water channels also have grinding grooves present. Of the sites which contain engravings and grinding grooves, 23% also have water channels”.

  • AWAT5113 LR Topham Trail AGGs
  • AWAT5115 LR Topham Trail AGGs
Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to Hiking the World, and receive notifications of new posts by email. (A hike is added every 1-2 weeks, on average.)

Join 637 other subscribers

0 Comments

Leave a Reply

Aboriginal Sites by National Park

Photographing Aboriginal rock art
A review of different techniques for photographing Aboriginal rock art. This includdes oblique flash, chain and planar mosaic imaging which combines hundreds of overlapping photos.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Hornsby Shire
Hornsby Shire - which is the largest LGA in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan region - contains approximately 600 recorded Aboriginal rock art sites (and over 1,200 Aboriginal heritage sites). These date back from thousands of years to post-European contact art.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Lane Cove
Over 40 sites have been recorded within the park; many were located along the river bank and were flooded by the building of the weir in 1938.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Blue Mountains National Park
Red Hands Cave, Glenbrook (Blue Mountains)
The Blue Mountains National Park (and surrounding areas along the Great Western Highway) is thought to have over a thousand indigenous heritage sites, although much of the park has not been comprehensively surveyed. The Aboriginal rock sites in the Blue Mountains include grinding grooves, stensils, drawing and rock carvings.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Maroota and Marramarra NP
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.