I can't get my head around this.

Submitted: Thursday, Feb 23, 2012 at 22:02
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Today I visited a great little museum at Wentworth NSW.
Some of you might know it, it’s opposite the old Gaol.
In the museum there is part of an old river red gum that was cut down in 1971.
Why is it in the museum?
Well, in the middle of the stump of this red gum, and it is around 1 metre in diameter and estimated to be about 200 years old, in the middle of this stump is the remains of an old box tree.
The red gum has grown completely around this old box tree.
So you can see the remains of the box tree in the middle of this huge old red gum stump.
Now the mind blowing part.
The box tree has been cut down at some stage with a metal axe. It is a pretty clean cut through the trunk of the box tree.
Well, we have an estimated 200 year old tree cut down in 1971, so that dates the gum to around 1770, give or take a few years.
But who was around Wentworth before that with a metal axe cutting down box trees.
Charles Sturt didn’t get to that area until the 1830’s.
Has anybody got any clues to who might have been around that area at that time?
The aboriginals only had stone tools and only took bark from the trees for their canoes and dishes.
Who could it have been?

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Dave
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