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Chaffey Dam artefact analysis

News
Feb 17, 2015

NOHC are currently analysing over 1000 stone items recovered during salvage excavations for the enlargement of Chaffey Dam near Tamworth. Here is a picture of a particularly fine example of an Aboriginal artefact from this assemblage, described as a Bondi Point, a type of backed blade.

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