Womerah Range AGG

Summary: A waterhole with two axe grinding grooves, near the Womerah Range Trail.

  • Site type: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1966
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • McCarthy reference: MELLONG Group 5B in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • Sim Reference: Sim Occasional Papers 7(1) 1966, p,6

Near the Womerah Range Trail is a small waterhole (which has been filled in with debris and covered by some large rocks), with at least two axe grinding grooves.

AWAT0324 LR Womerah Range AGG

The site was described by Sim as having: “two pothole, the larger one of which is covered with protecting sandstone slabs, and alongside it are 15 axe grinding grooves”.

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