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The Mount William stone axe quarry (traditionally known as Wil-im-ee moor-ing) is an Aboriginal Australian archaeological site in Central Victoria, Australia. It is located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) northeast of Lancefield , off Powells Track, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of Romsey and 78 kilometres (48 mi) from Melbourne .
Polished stone axe Pike of Stickle on the left, from the summit cairn of Pike of Blisco.The central scree run has produced many rough-out axes. Harrison Stickle, the highest of the Langdale Pikes, in the right centre of the group Neolithic stone axe from Langdale with well preserved handle, found at Ehenside Tarn near the Cumbrian coast (now in the British Museum [a])
Drombeg stone circle, at the winter solstice, the sun sets into a v formed by two distant overlapping hills and makes an alignment with the altar stone and the two main uprights. Due to the nature of the site and the western hills, local mid-winter sunset is c. 15:50. [citation needed] Beltany stone circle
The lake was the location for one of Australia's largest stone axe quarries. [3] The axes were traded amongst Aborigines across distances as far as 1,000 km. Construction began on the Leichhardt Dam in 1956, and was completed on 6 November 1958 at a cost of £1.7 million.
In particular, it was a valued source of stone for stone tools such as hand axes. [ 4 ] In the 2021 census , the town of Mount Isa had a population of 18,317 people, [ 1 ] making Mount Isa the administrative, commercial and industrial centre for the state's vast north-western region.
Ebor is a village on Waterfall Way on the Northern Tablelands in New South Wales, Australia. It is situated about 80 km (50 mi) east of Armidale and about a third of the way between Armidale and the coast. Dorrigo to the east is 46 kilometres (29 mi) away with the Coffs Coast 55 kilometres (34 mi) away along Waterfall Way.
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Warratyi is the site of a rock shelter in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.Located around 550 kilometres (340 mi) north of Adelaide and about 200 kilometres (120 mi) inland, it has been identified as the oldest known site of human habitation in inland Australia. [2]