WAR ROCK By Colin Kerr
Hidden away around 15km north of Morawa in the WA wheatbelt, measuring around 100 metres across and standing about 1-2 metres above the surrounding countryside, War Rock has quite a curious historic background.
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he rock itself is probably millions of years old, but the legend surrounding War Rock goes back to a time when a war, or some sort of conflict, occurred between two boundary Aboriginal tribes - believed to have been the Gullewa and Irwin Tribes. Today the site is creatively marked with metal sculpture interpretations of events which took place here on the rock many years ago.
Excerpt from Hema’s WA state map.
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On top of the rock itself today, there is one quite large gnamma hole (a natural depression in the rock) which usually fills with winter rains and can last many months - a quite reliable source of water for local Aboriginals thousands of years ago. There was another deeper gnamma hole also here years ago, but this was filled in by settlers in the early 1900s to prevent stock falling in.
