BellingenNSWApr 1, 2025

Aboriginal cultural heritage site: The kuyang - A giant 300 metre eel arrangement

"All it is is rocks in a paddock," Mr McMaster (farmer)

"Adrian McMaster allegedly used an excavator to remove rocks from an ancient stone arrangement resembling an eel on his Lake Bolac property, between Ballarat and Dunkeld, in 2021. I was moving the stones so I could get the [weed sprayer] in there," the 65-year-old told Ballarat Magistrates Court."
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Victorian farmer says destruction of Aboriginal cultural site an 'honest mistake'

But the western Victorian property owner tells a court he did not know the significance of the "rocks in a paddock" before he wrecked a 1,500-year-old ceremonial ground with an excavator.

ABC News