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Figure 5. Archaeological features recorded at Djungari dome 
and details of the grinding patches (adapted by AM Rossi from 
an original by RG Gunn). 
1.5 m with an estimated capacity of at least 6000 L (Gunn 
6 Webb 2003). This gnamma has formed in an 
inconspicuous granite pediment. Very few artefacts were 
noted on the ground around the gnamma, but a grinding 
patch, measuring 400 mm x 200 mm, has developed on 
its eastern rim, indicating that Aboriginal people camped 
near this water source in the past. The significance of this 
patch was not appreciated when it was recorded in 2002 
because it was an isolated find. This site is located about 
7 km southwest of Afghan Rock and can now be seen to 
belong to the suite of sites described in this paper. 
Taincrow Rockhole 
Taincrow gnamma measures 3.0 m x 2.3 m and is at 
least 1 m deep, an estimated capacity of 5000 L. It has 
formed on the west side of a low granite outcrop (Figure 
6 top). A cluster of 12 grinding patches was found on the 
flat or slightly sloping surface of the granite within 30 m 
of the gnamma (Figure 6 bottom); patch 1 is on the upper 
surface of a 1.2 m long block of granite resting on 
bedrock (Gunn & Webb 2006). Patches 13 and 14 were 
found on a separate inconspicuous pavement, 100 m to 
the south of the gnamma and barely emergent from the 
surrounding colluvium. 
A lizard trap was also identified on the north side of 
the outcrop housing the gnamma (Figure 6 top). It is the 
Figure 6. Archaeological features recorded around Taincrow 
Rockhole and details of grinding patches 1-12 (adapted by AM 
Rossi from an original by RG Gunn). 
first, and as yet only, lizard trap found near Cue (Webb 
in press). All the lizard traps recorded to date in Western 
Australia are made from and positioned on granite, 
however. It is possible, therefore, that further traps may 
await identification around Cue, which is located on the 
Archaean granites of the Yilgarn Craton (Myers & 
Hocking 1988). 
Summary 
The 14 grinding patches found at Taincrow Rockhole 
were the first noted east of Cue by Gunn & Webb (2006). 
Subsequently, we found 14 patches at Camel Soak and 
seven at Boat Hole Rock; also on granite outcrops east of 
Cue. This plethora of a type of evidence of past 
Aboriginal activity, previously only noted at Pool 
gnamma (Gunn & Webb 2003), west of Cue, prompted us 
to re-visit some of the other granite domes and outcrops 
in the region to see whether they hosted grinding patches 
that we had overlooked during previous surveys. As a 
result, two grinding patches were found at Afghan Rock 
and five at Djungari (Gunn & Webb 2006). All told, 43 
patches have now been recorded at six sites within a 40 
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