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Submitted by SteveDut on Monday, 10 October 2011  Page Views: 7969

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Jindabyne rock walls Alternative Name: Lake Jindabyne
Country: Australia
NOTE: This site is 29.758 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Jindabyne
Latitude: 36.366667S  Longitude: 148.633333E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4 Ambience:
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4Good
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Rock Wall alignments in Southern New South Wales, Australia. The history of the large, Lake Jindabyne granite stone wall is unclear. Local researcher Angel John Gallard says the more than 100 metre-long structure was described by an early settler - a Boer War veteran who explored the Snowy Mountains on horseback - as one of several walls built by Aborigines in the local area.

This fits with his own finds of many Aboriginal stone artefacts close to the site, and a circular stone arrangement on the crest of the ridge near where the wall begins.

He believes it has a spiritual purpose, as a Rainbow Serpent dreaming site. But, on the longest day of the year, he will also seek out any clues of an astronomical intent. ''There is a hell of a lot of manpower gone into it,'' he says.

Research shows Aboriginal people built a range of smaller stone structures including fish traps - such as the ancient ones in Brewarrina in western NSW - huts to shelter from the wind, and ceremonial arrangements. And Gallard, whose great great grandmother was a Ngarigo woman from the area, is also excited by an even more extraordinary set of three larger, stone walls in another area of remote bushland in the district.

A feat of engineering, they plummet down extremely steep inclines, yet have been built from thousands of rocks, some of them massive, with smaller stones carefully wedged between them.

There is about a 50-metre gap between the first 42-metre long wall and the second one, which is slightly offset from the first and ends on the edge of a cliff that plunges to a stream below. The third wall then climbs up the opposite side of the gorge.

''It is a big mystery,'' Gallard, who is also an environmental activist and chairman of the Snowy River Alliance, says.

Read more, with images and video at the Sydney Morning Herald


Note: Rock walls hint at advanced understanding of astronomy by the indigenous people of Southern NSW
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Welcome Back Meg Portal by Sunny100 on Monday, 10 October 2011
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I have missed The Meg Portal today its been off line. Put some £1 coins in the meter, Andy !!!
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Re: Jindabyne rock walls by Andy B on Sunday, 09 October 2011
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Angel John Gallard is an aboriginal elder and has been recording aboriginal sites since the 1950′s. His son Evan (Yanna-merro ) runs the Blue Mountains Walkabout aboriginal tours. http://www.bluemountainswalkabout.com
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Re: Jindabyne rock walls by Andy B on Sunday, 09 October 2011
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Reported today in the Sydney Morning Herald, would love to hear from my learned overseas friends about your theories for/against this one reported?
SteveDut

http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/walls-may-hold-heavenly-secrets-20111005-1l9fh.html
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