Huge rock carving unearthed in the NT | Katherine Times | May 6, 2024 - video Dailymotion

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A Darwin man has unearthed a massive rock carving, as well as a series of smaller animal carvings, in a secluded spot in the Northern Territory.

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00:00 All right, yeah a bit out of breath climbed up this escarpment country and to a top end here in Northern Territory

00:05 We've got this huge. I

00:08 Don't know what you call it, but I don't know if it's a monolith or something

00:12 But here I'll try and pick it up and see how big it is

00:15 And it just keeps going the intricate patterns are off its head

00:20 but

00:23 It's too hard with a phone to try and appreciate and show you how just how big it is

00:30 They're very deep

00:32 After the wet you'd imagine this would stay full of water for a while before it evaporated

00:36 But it would be well over 40 50 meters

00:41 So whoever did it must have spent a hell of a long time doing it keeps going

00:48 Like I said phones probably not doing it any justice

00:54 It's amazing. It's like spikes or fins maybe I don't know if it's supposed to represent a giant

01:00 fish whale or something

01:03 Have a look at it through here the phone

01:06 Can't pick it up. I how steep it is and just how

01:10 Intricate

01:14 these grooves are

01:16 Go off. I'll zoom back out. Look look how much further down it goes

01:20 I'm trying not to go

01:23 Trip over

01:25 Whoever did this or who's responsible? This is amazing. What you couldn't even guess how many hours or

01:31 Whatever days weeks months years even that's gone into doing this

01:37 and to think

01:40 I'm 49 born and bred in the territory and I didn't know about it. Let me just zoom over here for a bit

01:45 But more the escarpment

01:47 I'm not going to say where it is

01:50 Because you know last thing we need is people coming out and graffitying it or doing stupid shit to it

01:56 but yeah, it's beautiful goes down off the side into the

01:59 rocks

02:02 All I'll say is it's in the escarpment country that's about as much as I'm going to say

02:06 And look as it keeps going down

02:09 Unbelievable

02:14 Still more it's quite steep here this last bit

02:18 Wow, I just can't believe the effort that went into this

02:24 Don't know what significance it has whether it's to do with dreaming or some sort of culture

02:31 Whether it's just yeah

02:34 hard to say

02:37 but

02:39 Always when you get a chance to get out in the northern territory and look at new things or find new places

02:48 There's always stuff to explore

02:50 Yeah coming to the end of it now I believe

02:54 And yeah, I

02:58 Assume this is where it finishes because if the heads at the other end

03:01 So I wouldn't imagine you'd start at the head and finish at the tail and then it ends in this in the scrub

03:06 there's some more

03:09 boulders if you like and some rocks

03:11 and more hills

03:14 I'd definitely want to come back here when I've got more time

03:16 I'd like to go and walk a bit further in and explore because there looks like there's some caves and things

03:21 There'd probably be a lot heap of more stuff to be found. But anyway

03:24 very happy to have

03:27 seen this

03:29 How crazy is that

03:33 Found that thing before now. Look, can you see it? It's a big goanna in this rock

03:42 You see its claws, its tail, it's huge

03:46 Well over oh two meters

03:50 carved into the rock

03:52 That is amazing. Like I said

03:54 If I had more time to explore and cruise around here in this country, maybe when the fires been and burnt

04:01 All this out. There's so many rocks and so many caves and so much hidden stuff. It'd be worth worth coming out here for

04:10 Even a day and just exploring. Like I said, we just come back down the hill after seeing that amazing

04:16 Formation in the ground and I've come across this big goanna

04:20 that's been

04:23 Etched into the I don't know if it's sandstone or what type of rock it is. But yeah, how amazing is that?

04:29 There's its back leg and its claws its tail

04:31 Unbelievable

04:34 Yeah, I'm so glad I

04:36 Come out and had a look at all this

04:38 Amazing. Gotta love the top end

04:41 You

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Huge rock carving unearthed in the NT | Katherine Times | May 6, 2024

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