Topham Trail AGGs

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

  • Art type/s: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of art: 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
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