Thursday, Aug 04, 2005 at 20:40
Kyuss
As a follow up to your question and my post I received a reply from another person through my website and here is part of his letter to me.
' I was granted permission to visit the site in August 1982 and still have
the letter of approval from the Dep't of Environment & Planning (SA)
and a copy of the Dep't site notes brochure. Site register number is
5240-0192.
A
grid reference is noted on the site record as follows Map Sheet:
"Wells" 1:250,000
Grid Reference 506410 It is also on an aerial
photo referenced as Survey 1825 Frame 147 dated 10/6/75
Back then permission to visit was fairly easily obtained as it was in
the
Maralinga Prohibited Area and had not yet been handed back to local
claimants. I believe there is very little chance of anyone getting
permission to visit these days.
The trip I made was to Emu, the Totem sites and down to Observatory
Hill; then back up and on to Surveyor General corner on one of Len's
tracks which ran NW from a point about 50 km west of
Emu Junction. I
spoke a number of times with Len before the trip and he indicated that
this track had not been used for over 25 years and from the undergrowth
we encountered I have little reason to doubt him. His dozer track was
not difficult to follow even after all that time. According to Len he
sometimes took some 'strange people' out to
Stonehenge. They apparently
believed it was on a confluence of force lines which they believed cover
the earth !
Len also stated that none of the locals he came across knew anything
about the site and in fact considered it "rubbish" as it did not feature
in any of their stories or ceremonies at the time.
Whoever made it had gone to considerable efforts to construct the
arrangements for although they are not large, the tallest being just
over a metre high, the main arrangements cover a large area probably 70
-80 metres across. Further out up to another 100 metres were the
occasional arrangements as if they were markers to the main site.
An interesting area which I was fortunate to see. These days it would
probably be totally trampled and souvenired by some of the thoughtless
morons that venture to remote
places; like the clowns that stole one of
the Canning
well buckets a few years ago.
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Follow Up By: equinox-Kings Canyon - Sunday, Aug 07, 2005 at 17:41
Sunday, Aug 07, 2005 at 17:41
Willem,
That
grid reference does not make any sense.
The best I could derive from that reference (506410) was that it meant UTM Zone 53 750600E 6841000N and that would put the
Stonehenge pretty much right on the Emu to
Serpentine lakes road (Ann Beadell Highway) which cannot be correct as it is more likely to be a bit more to the south east from that point.
Can you make heads or tails of that reference?
Equinox
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Follow Up By: Willem - Sunday, Aug 07, 2005 at 19:54
Sunday, Aug 07, 2005 at 19:54
Equinox
No, it does not make sense to me either!
From what I can deduct this site must lie at the end of a
cleared line probably not marked on the map.
This
cleared line and another on the map have a
junction at UTM 216740E and 6827200N This is on Map 53J on my Raster mapping
The site would be somewhere north of
Observatory Hill.
If in the future you are interested in an exploratory trip email me through my website below and we can talk.
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