Mysterious Australia

Vol 1. Issue No 9

SEPTEMBER 2011

INSIDE:
N E W D IN O SA U R F O S SI L F O O TP R IN T S D I S C O V E R IE S . GIANT BEINGS OF PARRAMATTA, NSW. PRE-ABORIGINAL HOMINID FOSSIL FOOTPRINT AT A GLENBROOK, NSW VOLCANIC SITE. A HAWKESBURY RIVER MONSTER PHOTOGRAPHED FROM MOUGAMARA NATURE RESERVE?? A HAWKESBURY RIVER MONSTER?? SIGHTING AT EBENEZER. NEW DISCOVERIES OF BRONZE-AGE COLONISTS EVIDENCE FROM THE SYDNEY-BLUE MOUNTAINS AREA. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT COMING SOON BURRUNJOR AUSTRALIAS LIVING TYRANNOSAURUS.

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Blue Mountains UFO Research Club. The Club meetings are held on the third Saturday of the month, at the Gilroy residence, 12 Kamillaroi Road, South Katoomba, from 1pm onwards. We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always say, park in Ficus Street where there is safer parking.

Rex and Heather Gilroy, Australias top UFO and Unexplained Mysteries Research team. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

NEW DINOSAUR FOSSIL FOOTPRINTS DISCOVERIES.

By Rex Gilroy.
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

On Thursday 1st September 2011, Heather and I, together with our leading field assistant, Greg Foster, visited a bushland area outside Glenbrook on archaeological matters. Greg and I made some major finds, however we did not expect to uncover a fossil dinosaur track! While investigating an area containing Cretaceous Period rocks [66-144 million years ago] Greg noticed a deep three-toed impression upon the surface of a massive squarish ironstone slab. Close examination proved it to be the track of a Theropod [ie bipedal] dinosaur. It measured 40cm long by 38cm wide across the outstretched outer toes, by 13cm deep. A second Theropod dinosaur track was discovered by Westmead-based colleague, Nigel Kerr when he showed Heather and I a Cretaceous rock shoal deposit in the Parramatta district. The track was distorted in mud, afterwards covered by a volcanic ash deposit long since worn away to reveal the fossil. The three-toed impression measured 36cm wide across the outstretched toes by 34cm long and is a shallow impression worn by time. These fossil tracks have been uncovered in time to be included in the Gilroy next book Burrunjor Australias Living Tyrannosaurus now in its final stages of preparation. -0-

Greg Foster pleased with his discovery of a 65 million year old or over, fossil Theropod dinosaur track in the Glenbrook region of the Blue Mountains, NSW. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The fossil track found by Greg had been pressed into cooled volcanic ash and mud and preserved when rain reacted with the volcanic chemicals to turn the deposit into a concrete state. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

On the side of the massive ironstone slab just below the dinosaur track, Greg found this large piece of petrified wood. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Above ^ Nigel Kerr with the distorted Theropod track found by him recently near Parramatta, NSW. Right > The Parramatta Theropod impression had been preserved in the same manner as the Glenbrook specimen. Photos copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. 3

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GIANT BEINGS OF PARRAMATTA, NSW.

by Rex Gilroy
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Fossil feet impressions of giant hominids that roamed the Sydney district in past ages is to the Gilroys an established fact, as from fossils found in Tertiary deposits outside Sydney several years ago, and a scattering of finds made since 1970 at Campbelltown, Blacktown, Mulgoa, the Hawkesbury region etc., all dating roughly from the beginning of the Pleistocene or later [ie 2 to 2 million and around 500,000 years BP]. These giants, probable larger forms of archaic Homo erectus, averaged heights of from 3.66 to as much as 5 and 6 metres. Now another series of fossil giant feet impressions joins the list, found at a top secret location in the Parramatta district, by Westmead-based research colleague Nigel Kerr. Why the secrecy? For the simple reason that vandalism soon follows once such sites are made known to the general public! Nigels tracks are embedded in volcanically-preserved mudstone deposits laid down at least 2 million years ago, the tracks being situated in three levels, the top [surface] deposit, the second, an exposed mudstone layer 11cm beneath the surface specimens, and the third, lowest deposit 17cm below the second one. The surface deposit contains a single right foot 40cm long by 24cm across the toes, 14cm wide across the mid-foot and 15cm wide across the heel, the depth is 2cm. The track is situated on an south to north axis. The toes are well defined in this track, whereas separated 5cm from the size distorted little toes and pointing eastwards is a normal-size hominid foot whose toe features have worn away. This smaller track measured 23cm long by 11cm wide across the toes area, 10cm wide at mid-foot and 6cm wide at the heel. The track is 1.5cm deep. The second, lower [ie mid layer deposit] contains a single giant hominid track 34cm long by 14.5cm wide across the toes, 13cm wide at mid-foot and 11cm across the heel by 1cm deep. A right foot impression like the other example of the surface deposit, its owner had to have been at lest 3.66 metres tall. The lowest deposit contains a distorted left foot impression; 24cm long by 10cm wide across the toes, 5cm wide at mid-foot and 5cm wide across the heel and is 1cm deep. 1.3 metres southwest of the top surface giant track Nigel had discovered the impressions of a hominid hand. Volcanic mud and ash had covered these impressions. Rain later fell, the water reacting with the volcanic chemicals to turn the tracks and the mudflat they had been made into a concrete state. Gradual wearing away of the overlying volcanic deposit exposed these tracks through time. The smaller tracks could have been those of children of the giant beings, or else modern-height hominids that lived contemporaneously with the giant race. These beings lived on long enough to be seen by the earliest Aboriginal arrivals in the Sydney region, whose folklore spoke of a race of giant men and women that had been resident hereabouts since long before their arrival. Giant races once covered Australia, as from their fossil tracks, some fossil teeth, the giant-size skull endocasts of the Wadbilliga Range west of Narooma [south coastal New South Wales] and numerous stone megatool discoveries made Australia-wide by the Gilroys and others. The Parramatta district tracks add yet further evidence to this aspect of our Stone-Age past, for too long overlooked by conservative university archaeologists. -0-

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The top surface giant and smaller feet impressions. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. The smaller footprint of the top surface set. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Near the top surface fossil tracks Nigel Kerr discovered this set of left hand finger impressions, made by an ancient hominid. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. Nigel found the fingers of his left hand fitted into the fossil impressions. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Nigel pointing to the second large hominid foot impression of the second [middle] deposit. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The middle deposit track. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The third, last deposit contains this distorted modern human size footprint. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Nigel measures a section of an extensive 2 to 3 metre deep mineralised volcanic ash and mud deposit that originally covered the feet impressions, and which over immense ages has slowly worn away, retreating to expose the now mineralised footprints. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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PRE-ABORIGINAL HOMINID FOSSIL FOOTPRINT AT A GLENBROOK, NEW SOUTH WALES VOLCANIC SITE.
by Rex Gilroy
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

While palaeontologists worldwide look to Africa for our human origins, discoveries across the world now question Africa as the ultimate location or the birthplace of our species; and no more is this so than here in Australia. Conservative Australian science dates Aboriginal arrival here at lest 65,000 years [although estimates vary], having sailed here on crude rafts from island south-east Asia. Yet in far earlier times, during the early Pleistocene Period all the present islands were part of a land-shelf that extended from mainland Asia to a then united New Guinea-Australia. This bridge would for millions of years, have permitted primitive hominids access into Australia before the melting ice caps saw the rise of the worlds oceans in the last stages of the last great Ice-Age, which turned the great Asia-Australia land bridge into the present day islands. This hypothesis is backed by the fossil skull-types of archaic and late Homo erectus, and lately skulltypes of more than one form of Australopithecine, showing that these near-human ancestors had indeed spread out of Africa before 2 million years ago, to walk into our part of the world. I have already presented my case for Australopithecines in Australia in previous newsletters. The evidence is, whether conservative scientists like it or not, that a human evolution separate to that in Africa, occurred in Australia! The first modern humans are supposed to have appeared in Africa around 150,000-200,000 years ago; whereas I possess mineralised skull-types of anatomically modern humans [Homo sapiens] 350,000400,000 or more years old! Such evidence throws Aboriginal claims of being the first Australians into total disrepute, and therefore my evidence is continually denied and suppressed in the name of political correctness by those authorities who should know better! Australia is a land of forbidden fossils, hominid fossil footprints in particular, and many have been discovered across the Blue Mountains by me during a lifetimes field researches. These Tracks through Time were embedded in cold volcanic ash after eruptions by giant beings and others of modern human height and they are found Australia-wide. Yet those of the Blue Mountains figure prominently in my researches, for they were in most cases laid down 1; 2; 3; 4 million and perhaps more years ago! Those interested in pursuing my findings at greater length are directed to my website mysteriousaustralia.com as well as my books, Mysterious Australia; The Yowie Mystery Living Fossils from the Dreamtime among others. ***** The latest fossil supporting my claims is a foot impression embedded in a volcanic ironstone deposit. It was discovered on Thursday 8th September, 2011 when Greg Foster and I were exploring a gully in the Glenbrook region on the edge of the Blue Mountains. Greg spotted the impression first and I set to work measuring, sketching and photographing the relic. The human-looking foot impression measured 33cm long by 12cm wide across the toes, 12cm wide at midfoot and 9cm across the heel, being embedded up to 2cm deep in the mineralised volcanic ash and mud deposit. The track, and others like it, were usually preserved by rain falling later, the water reacting with the volcanic chemicals to turn the impression into a concrete state. The fossil is of immense age, at least dawn Pleistocene, or even late Pliocene, meaning that it is around 2 million years, perhaps 3 million years old. It is hard to say exactly how old this track is when all our university vulcanologists can say about Blue Mountains eruptions is that they are 20 million years or less in age! However, I believe we are looking at the period 2 million years to perhaps up to 3 million years BP [Before Present]. This was not the time of Homo erectus but of Australopithecus. Thus the Glenbrook NSW, fossil footprint is yet one more mystery of the unknown fossil hominid history of Australia. -0-

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The Greg Foster fossil footprint, discovered by him at a Glenbrook bushland location with Rex Gilroy. Of immense age, it proves that hominids of one form or another were roaming this continent millions of years ago. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A HAWKESBURY RIVER MONSTER PHOTOGRAPHED FROM MOUGAMARA NATURE RESERVE??

by Rex Gilroy
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

On Saturday 27th August, 2011 after an early arrival at Mougamara Nature Reserve to see and photograph wildflowers [the Reserve is only open to the public for this purpose for four weeks in AugustSeptember each year], I left Heather and our friend Ann Taylor at the car park to make a lone hike to a high point from where good views of the Hawkesbury River [onto which the park backs] are to be had. As Heather and I had not been here since 2009 it was good to be back. Eventually reaching the high viewing point via a rough climbing track, I found that areas of the river were still partly covered in thick fog, which had covered much of the Sydney district and lower Blue Mountains that morning. Although the fog was clearing the river remained hazy. Despite this, scanning the river with my binoculars and while looking northwards up river I spotted a moving, lengthy dark shape, swimming submerged towards an inlet across from where the river turns westward. Aiming my camera at the distant moving dark mass, I was able to capture a reasonable long distance image, and then a telephoto shot. The time was 11.08am. At this point a number of park visitors arrived and I quickly told one couple about the still just visible creature and we observed it as it finally vanished from sight. Excited at what I had just seen and photographed I began the long trek back to the carpark to show Heather and Ann what I had photographed. This river holds many secrets and mysteries. The notorious Hawkesbury River Monster is one of them and surely its most infamous mystery of all. -0-

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The Hawkesbury River road bridge spanning the river at Brooklyn. Plesiosaur-type marine creatures have been observed swimming beneath the bridge over many years. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A view looking up river just west of the road bridge. It was in the centre top river area of this photo that Rex Gilroy spotted a mysterious shape swimming beneath the surface. He observed the distant creature with his binoculars from a high rock formation overlooking the river at Mougamara Nature Reserve at exactly 11.08am on Saturday 27th August, 2011. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The distant dark shape of a creature just below the surface swimming up river. This photo was taken at 11.08am [centre of picture]. Excessive late morning fog on the part of the river made it difficult to take better photos. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A telephoto shot of the mystery creature, whose snake-like movements beneath the surface were suggestive of those of a plesiosaurus. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A HAWKESBURY RIVER MONSTER?? SIGHTING AT EBENEZER.

by Rex Gilroy
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

While exploring the Hawkesbury River bank along the Swallow Reach Reserve at Ebenezer, which lies north of Windsor on the afternoon of Tuesday 6th September 2011, at 3.22pm I saw in the river some distance to the south of where I stood on the bank, moving just beneath the surface away from the opposite river bank, a dark shape at least 2 metres in length moving east to west. With my camera I was able to take long distance and telephoto shots of the mystery creature, which at one brief moment appeared to propel itself with the aid of paddle-type flippers. The mystery creature [was it a plesiosaur?] then submerged out of sight. Later, at another Ebenezer location I chanced to come across the faded engraved image of a plesiosaur-type creature, better known as the Mirreeulla, or Moolyewonk to the former Aboriginal tribespeople centuries before European arrival. The carving had to be chalked in for photographic purposes. It measures 38cm long by 23cm wide across the paddles, with a 10cm long tail and 16cm long neck and head. The Ebenezer sighting comes at a time when Heather and I are planning to carry out more Hawkesbury River monster watches and a report from our top field assistant Greg Foster that a friend of his
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has sighted the Hawkesbury Nessie at Wisemans Ferry. Things are seemingly hotting up again along the Hawkesbury! -0-

The Hawkesbury River at Ebenezer at the point from which Rex Gilroy spotted with his binoculars a distant dark submerged shape, moving against the current from near the east bank towards the west bank before submerging deeper out of sight. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rex took this telephoto shot of the mysterious dark shape in mid-river on its westerly course just before swimming deeper out of view. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011

The enlarged image. A dark streak projects from the body, which was one of two sets of apparent paddle-like flippers observed through the binoculars. Is this mysterious creature a plesiosaur? Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The Aboriginal rock engraving at Ebenezer believed to depict a plesiosaur, seen by the artist in the adjacent river thousands of years ago. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

NEW DISCOVERIES OF BRONZE-AGE COLONISTS EVIDENCE FROM THE SYDNEY-BLUE MOUNTAINS AREA.
by Rex Gilroy
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The past two months has seen some remarkable discoveries made, which throws new light upon the colonisation of the Sydney-Blue Mountains region by peoples from Egyptian, Phoenician and Celtic lands during Bronze-Age times [3000-1400 BC]. We begin with discoveries made by our Westmead-based colleague, Nigel Kerr, who through his own investigations has uncovered evidence of the above in the Parramatta River region, where Greg Foster and I have in the past also found much the same evidence, all of which further proves that Australias history of discovery and colonisation pre-dates the First Fleet [1788] by thousands of years! Having been contacted by Nigel regarding various rock inscriptions he had uncovered, Heather and I visited him and his wife Jody on Tuesday 23rd August and were soon at a sandstone river scrub location, where Nigel showed me a weathered sandstone altar upon a slope in front of a small rock shelter. The altar, 1.2 metres long by 80cm wide and 1.12 metres deep bore ancient Egyptian glyphs which I translated to read: Temple of the Sun Ra behold his rays. Nigel then showed me at another nearby location a large flat altar stone at the entrance of another rock overhang. Measuring 2.4 metres long by 90cm wide and 51cm deep, a Phoenician inscription at one end read: Altar of the Sun. At this prepared enclosure within the temple sacrifice to the Sun Ra. Beside the glyphs was a crude image of the God holding a snake an ancient Sun symbol. Here was a Phoenician inscription with an Egyptian meaning, demonstrating the mixing of cultures that once occurred hereabouts. Nearby another inscription in Celtic ogham beside an image of a hawk symbolising the God Bel, carved upon a vertical rockface read: In the name of Bel behold his light. The dark-haired God. This inscription was in the vicinity of an Egypto-Phoenician message cared upon a clifftop sandstone shoal. It stated: The degrees of the Sun are measured and timed by Ga-si at the Sun Temple enclosure. Here was an astronomical message amid the hardly recognisable remnants of a stone temple that had stood here some 3,500 or more years ago. We had to return home after I was shown these finds, but we returned on Wednesday 7th September, when Nigel had another remarkable discovery at another river location to show us. High up above the rivers edge amid dense bush he showed us several large crude stone pillars that, we were informed, until 1941 had stood in a circular formation, a megalithic temple. The structure was senselessly bulldozed by local city council workers. At the rivers edge Nigel found a small Phoenician inscription that included a boat, cut into the edge of a large rock that projected over the water. It read: Here fishermen gather in boats to fish. Fishermen were always important for their providing the coastal colony settlement inhabitants with fish, as much as the farmers that grew the crops inland, for it is certain that a great Sydney region colony
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containing thousands of people [see Pyramids of Destiny Lost Pacific Colonies of the Bronze-Age GodKings URU Publications 2009] was established hereabouts 4,000 years ago. While searching nearby Nigel found a lengthier inscription upon a large rock slab, which I later translated to read: This stone declares that all fishermen gather at the Temple of the Eye of Bel on Beltane [ie May Day] to worship and give thanks to Bel the dark-haired, Bel the heroic serpent. The inscription was largely in Celtic ogham script. Bel was the Sun-God of the Celts as Baal was to the Phoenicians. Obviously the nearby megalithic circle ruins had once stood as a fishermans temple. Time once again was against us but we plan to return with Nigel for further investigations in this age. Meanwhile another big finds were being made in the Glenbrook region inland from the Nepean River, to which we now turn ***** On a spot decision by Heather on Thursday 25th August 2011, we visited a bushland area near Glenbrook where I explored an open site above a creek that led into the Nepean River. While searching bush on a hill overlooking this creek I came across a large stone slab bearing a deeply cut image of the Sun with two downward and outward extending rays upon a flat surface 1 metre long by 80cm wide and 40cm deep. High up, on the east side of the hill I afterwards uncovered a 2.36 metre long by 89cm wide ironstone slab 40cm deep, bearing a crude right face profile with an eye and a nose. At the rear of the face I found three Phoenician letters B-h-l spelling Baal. Here was an image of the Phoenician Sun-God, now lying flat on the ground but when standing upright had faced the east. Another large ironstone slab 1.4 metres to its right was overlooked on this occasion, but when closely examined on my next visit, [this time with Greg Foster], would surprise me. On my way down to the clearing where Heather waited, I came upon a crude face carving on a sandstone rock with the Phoenician inscription emblazoned on the forehead: Observe here the Suns light. I believe that the remains of a temple will eventually come to light hereabouts. I then found a lengthy Celtic ogham inscription with ship carvings later translated to read: Ships sailed to this place protected by the Sun led by our leader Ham, the elder son of Gavin the bold fair-haired. Magog declares on this stone. I afterwards explored the creek in a deep gully to find a small set of glyphs [ogham] stating: Place of Earth Mother worship, and nearby the ogham glyphs B-l for Bel, Sun-God of the Celts. We then drove home but returned here on Thursday 1st September with our leading field assistant Greg Foster to begin a detailed investigation which still continues. When I showed Greg the hilltop Baal image we also cleared forest debris from the second slab to find it bore an eye, nose and mouth. Two small Phoenician glyphs atop the head for T and N spelt Tanit. Here was a crude image of Phoenician Earth-Mother Goddess, Tanit. It was apparent that both images had once been erected upright to face the east, receiving the rays of the rising sun. The Earth-Mother image measured 1.85 metres tall by 1.1 metres wide and 46cm deep. We also found a 1.1 metre tall by 1 metre wide and 40cm deep slab further down the forest covered hill bearing a Celtic message: This stone erected here declares that this is the place to worship Bel the Sun. We then explored the gully below barely touched by my first visit, although I suspected more finds awaited discovery there. Here I found two small cliffside ship carvings formed from ogham letters, which read: Hams ship The Light of Bel. Nearby amid large rock rubble was a fallen head image at the base of which on its right side were the Celtic letters for Bel. The head, with eyes, nose and mouth measured 1.34 metres when once erect by 80cm wide and 60cm deep. I told Greg, who was first to stumble upon this image, that this was THE find of the day! Daylight was fading as we made our way out of the gully to return to Heather. Yet as we were about to make the climb one last find awaited us, a squarish ironstone block 85cm long by 53cm wide and bearing a crudely carved Winged Sun image and Celto-Phoenician glyphs, stating: This stone declares that the Winged Sun in the clouds is our God. Beside this stone was another containing a 44cm long by 6cm wide snake image, another Sun symbol of the ancients. ***** We all returned to this rich site of Celto-Phoenician rock art on Thursday 8th September. By now it was certain that this area was a mixed Celto-Phoenician farming community connected to others near Penrith and other locations already known from Bowral in the south to the Nepeans junction with the Hawkesbury River, where many spectacular finds lead to the great Gosford area City of Be-row-Ra, but that is another story. The full details can be read in the Gilroys 2009 book Pyramids of Destiny Lost Pacific Colonies of the Bronze-Age God-Kings [URU Publications].
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One cannot speak too highly of Greg, who has been with the Gilroys on many of our greatest discoveries, negotiating cliffs and boulders with the agility of a mountain goat. His talents on this day resulted in more dramatic finds. We returned to the gully where Greg immediately found a roundish sandstone boulder carved with two eyes, a Sun-disc and the Celtic letter B, denoting Bel the Sun. The boulder was 58cm long by 40cm wide and 16cm in depth. Then upon another sandstone rock once meant to stand upright but now overturned, where earlier I found a large mushroom glyph, Gregs eagle eye spotted more situated down one side of the stone whose situation was awkward to record and photograph, but I did it. These glyphs included a solar disc and a small mushroom symbol, the whole translating as Behold the [sacred] mushroom. Here consume the mushrooms of the Sun. The rock itself was 80cm long by 50cm wide and 40cm deep. Atop the stone were the Celtic glyphs for Bel. Greg soon discovered in an awkward, slippery place to get into, upon a creekside sandstone boulder, another fallen image of the Sun-God, Bel, the right side of his face almost obscured amid the rubble, but I was able to make out a right eye, nose and right half of the mouth. Celtic ogham identified the image, which included a very rare [in Australia] horned Bel glyph. The inscription stated: The Sun, the God of Light. All gather in a body before his stone image for worship on this prepared ground. Observe him. Behold the face of Horned Bel. This large head would have stood 1.4 metres tall, its width being 8cm, with a depth of 40cm. I was by this time exhausted. We sat upon a rock to rest only to spot yet another large head image two large eyes and a mouth, the huge slab lying partly obscured by another. Exhausted or not, I had to measure and photograph this probable Bel image. It would have stood upright at 1.6 metres tall by 1.4 metres wide and was at least 40cm deep, or what was visible amid surrounding rocks. Nearby we both spotted a sandstone head image measuring 19.5cm tall by 20.2cm wide and 5.6cm deep. Ogham glyphs on the back identified the image as Bel. We soon left that gully excited at what else surely still awaits discovery. We have yet to identify settlement remains although I have a good idea where such habitation remains may await discovery. The area undoubtedly hides remains of a large farming settlement adjacent to this extensive religious centre. This site can now be recognised as the largest Celto-Phoenician settlement so far discovered on the [lower] Blue Mountains. -0-

Nigel Kerr beside the altar containing the Egyptian message: Temple of the Sun Ra behold his rays. Remains of a temple must exist nearby in the Parramatta River area. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Close view of the hieroglyphs. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The rock shelter containing an altar bearing Phoenician glyphs reading: Altar of the sun. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The Altar. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A close view of the inscription. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

These badly weathered Celtic ogham glyphs including a hawk image refer to Bel as the dark-haired God. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The Egypto-Phoenician inscription referring to The degrees of the Sun being measured and timed by Ga-si. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Remains of an ancient stone walled pathway near temple ruins. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Heather beside one of the large sandstone pillars that formed a megalithic circle temple prior to being bulldozed in 1941 by council workers. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Another of the massive stone pillars lying in scrub. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The small Phoenician inscription reading: Here fishermen gather in boats to fish. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. Nigel Kerr and another his finds, a Celtic inscription declaring that all fishermen gather at the former temple on Beltane. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The large stone slab bearing the Sun disc and downwardpointing rays, found by Rex Gilroy near Glenbrook. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The large overturned image of Baal, the Phoenician SunGod, found by Rex Gilroy on a scrub-covered hillside near Glenbrook. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The glyphs identifying the image as Baal. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The large overturned head of the Phoenician EarthMother Goddess, Tanit, beside the Baal image. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The Tanit head. Note the glyphs for Tanit above the eye. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The crude face carving with the forehead glyphs stating: Observe here the Suns light. Photo copyright (c0 Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The lengthy Celtic ogham inscription on a rock shoal referring to ships having sailed down the Nepean River led by Ham. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

This stone bore the message: Place of Earth-Mother worship [the Celtic earth-Mother Goddess was Byanu]. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

On the hillside below the large Baal and Tanit images, found by Rex, Greg found this Celtic inscription: This stone erected here declares that this is the place to worship Bel the Sun. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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This ogham ship reads: Hams Ship the Light of Bel. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2011.

The second vessel is Hams actual ship. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The massive head of Bel, discovered by Greg Foster. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Another view of the Gods image. Note the ogham strokes for Bel towards the base of the head. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The Winged Sun inscription, found as Rex and Greg were leaving the gully on Thursday 25th August. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The Snake image carved on a rock beside the Winged Sun inscription. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2011.

Greg beside ogham strokes for Bel. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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The stone bearing the sacred mushroom inscription. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Another view of the mushroom inscription. Consumers of the sacred fungus must have had a high time on occasions in this gully! Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The fallen image of Bel found beside a creek 1.4 metres by 8cm wide and 21cm deep. Among the glyphs is a horned Bel image, a rare Celtic symbol to find in Australia. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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While resting, the exhausted archaeologists spotted this large, 1.6 metre tall by 1.4 metre wide head image. Although no glyphs were found on it, the image is likely to be that of Bel. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The small head image of Bel [wearing a Phrygian cap] recovered among rocks just before Rex and Greg left the gully. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. COMING SOON BURRUNJOR AUSTRALIAS LIVING TYRANNOSAURUS.

by Rex and Heather Gilroy
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Hot on the heels of our latest book release BIG Cats of the Australian Wilderness, Heather and I are pleased to announce that our next book Burrunjor Australias Living Tyrannosaurus is now in the final stages of preparation. Watch this newsletter for further information. This sensational book concerns the infamous Tyrannosaurid giant reptilian monster of Australian Aboriginal folklore. The book is filled with often terrifying tales of encounters with these reptilian nightmares, both by Aboriginal people and Europeans. A case for their sudden appearance and vanishing without trace being due to Time-Windows is presented, along with recently made foot impressions of these reptiles, including plaster cast examples from the recent South Australian finds of the Gilroys and Greg Foster, as well as fresh tracks found in Kanangra Boyd wilderness and Wollemi National Park, location of the mysterious dinosaur Swamplands where eerie encounters with these monsters from another age have been claimed to have occurred. This book will be a must for all Cryptozoologists interested in the living dinosaurs theory. -0In remote parts of the world tales persist of giant reptilian survivors from the Age of Dinosaurs. Stories of sauropod-like, even Tyrannosaurus-like reptilian giants are known from the New Guinea interior. Our Aborigines speak of a giant bipedal reptilian monster called Burrunjor, which inhabits areas of Australias north [see Out of the Dreamtime The Search for Australasias Unknown Animals, URU Publications 2006]. Even many Europeans claim to have made sightings in these regions. The Wollemi Wilderness also has a long tradition of such encounters. However, might it be that these monstrous reptiles from the past occasionally penetrate time windows into our present, or do modern humans occasionally do the same, to encounter such monsters. Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2011

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Please Note!!
Our previous meetings have been huge successes and we look forward to seeing you at our next one.
Our next meeting will be held on SATURDAY 15 October, 2011 same time, same place 12 Kamillaroi Road, Katoomba. [Ph: 02 47823441] So until our next meeting Watch the Skies!
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Its HERE!
The latest Gilroy Book BIG Cats of the Australian Wilderness.

$55 plus $10 p&h. Also coming soon Burrunjor Australias Living Tyrannosaurus

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