mysterious australia newsletter - april 2011

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MYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIAMYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIAMYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIAMYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIA

Vol 1. Issue No 5

APRIL 2011

INSIDE:

The Search for Burrunjor. Ancient Celts of the Northern Territory Border Country. Fossil Big Cat Graveyard discovery in the Northern Territory.


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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 Streetwhere there is safer parking.

THE SEARCH FORBURRUNJOR.By Rex Gilroy

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

On Thursday 10th March 2011 Heather and I left Katoomba for Wycliffe Well in the Northern Territorywhere we were to take part in the Wycliffe Well UFO Conference. Due to flooding however, when wereached Alice Springs we learnt the conference had been cancelled. Regardless of this we made numerousfinds along the way of both an archaeological and cryptozoological nature. Perhaps the most sensational ofthese being the discovery of fresh Burrunjor feet impressions amid which were faded tracks of what appearedto be Coelurosaurs, a small species of carnivorous dinosaur.

We feel the only way these reptiles could survive in the modern age is by time windows, whereby

reptilian creatures from cretaceous times some 65 million years ago are able to periodically enter our timedimension. From what has been gathered by us it would appear that they occupy our world for a time beforere-entering their own through the window that permitted them to enter our time zone.

The discovery was made on the Stuart Highway in the mulga country south of the Northern TerritoryBorder. As usual it was another of my accidental discoveries, made when I had Heather stop the car while I

went to take photos of the scrub.Within a few minutes I came across the rotting carcases of five cows, one torn in half. As

decomposition would not take very long in the heat of the semi-desert country of this region I judged theremains to be only a few weeks old. It was now that I came across numbers of indistinct large tracks in thedry sand of the site, and nearby three large three-toed bipedal tracks of a large creature on an east to westdirection. I soon found a long preserved track pointing south 11.4 metres away.

A storm was building up, and although I had casting plaster in the car I judged that there would notbe enough time for casts of these tracks to dry, so I set about sketching, measuring and photographing them.Allowing for sand distortion the tracks were 50cm in length by 35cm wide across the outstretched

outer toes by up to 6cm deep. The lone track was 57cm wide, these measurements allowing for distortionscould have been made by Tyrannosaurids of around 6.6-8.3 metres [20-25ft] in length.

With dark clouds closing in rapidly something told me to make a quick search further down theroad. As Heather and I drove there I had her stop when I noticed large markings in the sand on the roadside.It was obvious that something big had made them so a day or so before. As I reached the site I saw,embedded in the sandy bank of the roadside an enormous three-toed impression.

Just inland from the roadside I found other indistinct enormous tracks in grassy soil made by thesame creature. There were a number of kangaroo tracks mixed among those of the giant creature and it was

obvious that he had pursued a mob of these marsupials across the road and on into the scrub. In the courseof this the beast had crushed a large mulga tree splitting it in two in its pursuit of the mob of kangaroos.I took what photos I could and hastily returned to the giant track. Calling out to Heather to join me

we hastily photographed, measured and sketched the track as spitting rain began to fall. Completing our workas the rain got heavier, we bolted for the car.

Rex and Hea th e r G i l r oy , Aus t ra l i a s t op UFOand Unexp la in ed Mys t e r i e s Re s ea r c h t eam.

Pho to c op y r i gh t Rex Gi l r oy 2004 .


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The track measured 66cm across the outer toes by 1 metre long from tip of mid-toe to back of heel.It was impressed 9cm deep into the sand. Here was the track of a full-grown Tyrannosaurid that would havebeen 12 metres in length. We drove on through the rain intending to carry out a return visit on the way home.

*****At Kulgera, just north of the Northern Territory border, a search for a Burrunjor Aboriginal rock

engraving found on a previous visit failed to relocate it. However, I found two more.After reaching Wycliffe Well, a visit to nearby Devils Marbles resulted in finding more Aboriginal

rock art of the fearsome beast. After leaving Wycliffe Well together with Greg Foster we visited EwaningaRock Engraving Site outside Alice Springs where yet another Burrunjor image was found among all the other

Aboriginal rock art.On our way out of the Northern Territory we returned to Kulgera for more rock art searches. On this

occasion I uncovered two more Burrunjor images. The amount of rock art devoted to Burrunjor by theformer tribespeople is an indication of not only how widely spread he was, and still is in tribal tradition, butalso how commonplace his presence was in the Northern Territory.

Driving down the Stuart Highway we returned to the Burrunjor tracks site. To my surprise the trackswere still visible and three more had joined them, one being a Coelurosaur measuring 29cm long by 21cmwide and 10cm deep. Six metres west of this track was a Burrunjor impression 40cm long by 40cm wide, thethird track, some distance from the others, was 28cm long by 38cm wide.

We set to work casting the best of three tracks then headed for Port Augusta before reaching BrokenHill then home. We plan to return in 2012 but in the meantime will have other Burrunjor locations toinvestigate closer to home.

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Local humour. This highway kangaroo crossingsign shows local knowledge and acceptance of the

Burrunjor monsters. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2011.

The dirt track in from the Stuart Highwaynear the rotting carcases of the cattle where

Rex Gilroy made his chance discovery. Photocopyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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The area of the cattle carcases is flat grass-covered redsandy soil and mulga scrub terrain over which

Burrunjors and Coelurosaurs pursued kangaroos, asindicated by the dozens of tracks, indistinct and

otherwise, which Rex Gilroy found over a wide area.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The carcase of one butchered cow, torn apart by massive jaws.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Another of the four cows butchered by a Burrunjor.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A trackside kill. There is the possibility that more than oneBurrunjor was involved in these killings.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The state of decomposition of the carcases suggests that the area isclose to a time window and that the dinosaurs have been coming

and going hereabouts for a long time.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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Heather Gilroy looking at the lone Burrunjortrack. It measured 57cm wide by 50cm long.

Photo copyright t Rex Gilroy 2011.

The large track, close-up. The middle toe is dug deep into the sand.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The set of three smaller Burrunjor tracks. The reptilewas heading west. The tracks measured 50cm long by

35cm wide across the outstretched outer toes.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Apart from the Burrunjor tracks there were also numbers ofapparent Coelurosaur impressions. These tracks were found

on a south to north direction and were associated withBurrunjor footprints moving in the direction of the Stuart

Highway.

Some distance further along thehighway the Gilroys stopped their

vehicle when Rex spotted a huge three-

toed impression in a roadside sandyembankment. Note ruler beside trackimpression bottom left of picture.



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The track measured 1 metre long by 66cm wide across the outer toes and 27cmacross the heel by 9cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Heather Gilroy was amazed when shown the trackby Rex. There were further tracks of the monster

over the rim, indistinct amid grass, accompanied bymore Coelurosaur impressions and the kangaroos

they appear to have been pursuing.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

While the Gilroys did their measuring and photographingdark rain clouds were gathering, forcing them to complete

their work in haste. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

One of the small Coelurosaur tracks found near the giganticBurrunjor impression on the north side of the road.



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Another Coelurosaur impression. The large number of tracks foundsuggests a small herd of these small carnivores were involved in the

hunt. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

In its pursuit of the kangaroos, the Burrunjor giant crashed itsway through the limbs of this large shrub.


The unchanged terrain of mulga beyond the north side of the highway,across which the dinosaurs pursued their kangaroo prey.


Another view of the south side of the highway at the first site. Theground in the distance contains a mixture of Theropod dinosaurtracks. Those Burrunjor tracks found on the first visit and cast onthe return trip home by Rex Gilroy were part of a small herd. It is

likely that more will be found on future visits to this site.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rex Gilroy and Greg Foster wait for thecasts to dry on the homeward drive. The

small squares of cardboard at the base of the

toes made it easy to dismantle the castsafterwards for easier packing.



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ANCIENT CELTS OF THE NORTHERNTERRITORYBORDERCOUNTRY.

By Rex GilroyCopyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

On our recent trip to the Northern Territory Heather and I made significant new discoveries pertaining to alarge Bronze-Age Celto-Phoenician colony, established over 3,000 years ago.

The finds come from a locality already known to us for the hundreds of rock inscriptions

discovered at a megalithic temple during our July-August 2006 Central Australian search.

The discoveries here began on Saturday 12th

March 2011 when a search of hitherto uninvestigated

granite formations north of the temple resulted in me stumbling upon a weathering stone head. A Celtic

inscription still visible upon the right side of the face stated: Bel the Sun, the Sun-Serpent, the Eye of the

Sun.

There were crumbling remains of a basalt stone enclosure surrounding this large image, which I

measured as 1.78 metres tall by 54cm wide at the base and 1.3 metres across the forehead.

Several kilometres away at the motel we stayed overnight at was a large basalt stone used as a

decoration for the motel grounds. The stone we discovered to be engraved in Bronze-Age Celtic scripton two of its flat sides. The stone was placed on its side, the 1 metre by 75cm base showed it had once

stood upright. I measured the stone to be 1.46 metres tall when upright by 90cm width at the tip and 56cm

deep.

The relic was a message stone and it bore the inscription:

Light the Beltane fires. Worship the Goddess [ie Byanu]

at this temple prepared for the Sun, Bel.

Upon this stone pour water in libation.

Here gather in a body.

Ham, priest of Bel the Sun declares.

We have known since our 2006 discoveries hereabouts that the colonists reached the interior by

triremes before the inland sea retreated north and the river systems that branched southward from it alsovanished, as evidenced by numerous rock carvings of triremes we have already found throughout this

district.

The region is rich in gold, tin and copper and once discovered was the incentive to establish a

colony that supported at least several thousand inhabitants. Crops were grown to feed the colony, while

overland contact with coastal bases at Spencers Gulf would have seen cattle introduced from the coastal

communities, and also single-humped camels. We known this from rock carvings found at one large

temple.

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Following the discovery of a number of new Celto-Phoenician inscribed stones in the area, we

uncovered a large stone circle. Built of basalt stone with a central 3.65 metre tall standing stone, this 12

by 12 metre circle parallels others found at other ancient Celtic sites throughout the ancient world.The central stone besides bearing the engraved message: Behold the phallus and praise Bel,

displays face images of the God on its north and south sides.

A pyramidal mound of tumbled basalt stones west of the circle contained two sets of engravings,

one stating: All gather to praise the Sun and the second inscription which bore the large hieroglyph for

sunrise read: Behold the light at Sunrise.

Following these discoveries Heather and I continued our drive north to Wycliffe Well where other

finds awaited us.

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A crumbling basalt head of theBronze-Age Celtic Sun-God, Bel.

Photos copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The inscription carved on the right side of the face. Itreads: Bel the Sun, the Sun-Serpent, the Eye of the

Sun. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.The large Celtic inscribed stone in the Motel

grounds. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The inscriptions reveal a message to

Light the Beltane fires and worshipthe Goddess [Byanu].

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. Rex Gilroy sketching the stone and its inscriptions.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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The stone circle constructed of large basalt boulders, at the centre of which stands a tall menhir or standing stone.


Another view of the standing stone.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The tall standing stone bears the images of two faces of Bel.Regrettably it has not escaped spray paint wielding vandals!


Heather Gilroy stands in front of the 3.66 metretall standing stone. Note the image of Bel. It faces

north. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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The Bel image. Note the weathered eyes and nose of the God. Theimages of this stone were carved at the time of its erection at least

3,000 years ago. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rex Gilroy standing in front of the other Bel image which facessouth. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Heather Gilroy beside the weathered carved inscription found onthe east side of the Bel stone.

Photo co ri ht Rex Gilro 2011.

The Suntouching thehead of Bel.

Photo

copyright Rex Gilroy

2011.

The inscription in close-up. It reads: Behold the phallusand praise Bel. Photo copyright t Rex Gilroy 2011.


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The north head image in close-up.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The south head close-up.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

This important ancient Bronze-Agemonument has not escaped the vandals.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. Another view of the vandalism and manypeople continue to ask the Gilroys why wenever reveal our sites to the general public!


East of the megalithic circle, hidden by bushland, arethe remains of an ancient Celtic village.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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All that remains of this dwelling are scattered rubble and theremains of a stone wall. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The stone wall remains of another dwelling.


The former dwellings lined this ancient north-south road on bothsides. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A ruined high stone wall. The building when intact would have beenof very large size and probably of some importance to the village.

Photo copyright t Rex Gilroy 2011.

A closer view of some of the large stones.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The reason for theexistence of this

Bronze-Age Celticcommunity was thisgold quartz reefwhich extends over

a great distancerunning east-west.Photo copyright

Rex Gilroy 2011.


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The pyramidal [east side] pile of large basalt stones bearing inscriptions,all connected with Sun-worship. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

This inscription found on the stone pile reads:Behold the light at Sunrise.


This inscription reads: All gather to praise theSun. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The pyramidal pile [west side].Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Close-up of the praise image. Photo

copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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This 1.55 metre tall by 1.4 metre wide and40cm thick basalt slab found near the

pyramid pile reads: Behold Bel the Sun.Behold the Sun. Slay a sacrifice to Bel the great

Sun-Serpent..Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A 90cm tall by 41cm wide and 40cm deep basalt slab bears the message:Gather here in a body to worship Bels Eye the Sun.


A crude birds head image unearthed at the stonecircle. It has since been found to bear a short

inscription. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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FOSSIL BIG CATGRAVEYARD DISCOVERY IN THE NORTHERNTERRITORY.

Rex GilroyCopyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

On an expedition to Central Australia during March 2011, Rex and Heather Gilroy together with theirfield assistant Greg Foster, uncovered a Pleistocene fossil marsupial graveyard on a property in the Alice

Springs district.The graveyard, consisting of limestone mineralised jaws, teeth, claws, spinal vertebrae and other

bones of marsupial cats and other species dating back at least 1 million years old, was exposed from a creekbank on a recently flooded property.

Interestingly, the incomplete and badly deteriorated remains of hominins who occupied the site inpre-Australoid [ie Aboriginal] times were also exposed, suggesting that a number of the creatures had beenbutchered and eaten by the hominins, who date to the era of Homo erectus.

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A section of creek bank where fossil remains ofmarsupials were exposed by recent floodwaters.


A close view of the ancient deposits in which the remains had beenpreserved. Fossil bone fragments had been widely scattered in the

sandy shore of the creek by the floodwaters.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Another section of the creek bank.

Over 50,000 years of deposits cover fossils yet to be exposed.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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Among fossil remains recovered from the shoreline byRex Gilroy and Greg Foster was this lower limestone

mineralised marsupial lion shearing tooth.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Another view of the tooth. The jaw fragment isattached to a lump of limestone mineralised mud. As

with all the other fossils from the creek sties, thetooth and jaw fragment are coated in a thin layer oflimestone mineralised mud. The jaw minus the mudappendage measures 7.3cm long by 5.9cm deep and3.2cm wide, the tooth being 6.5cm long by 3.2cm

wide and 2cm deep.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A distorted limestone mineralised mud coated lower right jaw fragment of amarsupial carnivore. The fossil besides being badly distorted during the early

stages of the mineralisation process, displays cracks and a broken frontalshearing tooth. The long shearing tooth was used to stab at its prey. A lump ofmud coats the frontal section of a large broken first right lower incisor tooth [not

gap]. The fossil measures 11.5cm long by 12.5cm deep and 6.3cm wide.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Lumbar?? Vertebrae of possible marsupial catspecies. The specimen measures 7.5cm long by

10.2cm wide and 5.5cm deep.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Marsupial vertebrae. It measures 6.2cm long by 9cm wide and 6.2cm

deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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Marsupial vertebrae. It measures 6.5cm long by 11.2cm wide and4.3cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Marsupial vertebrae found scattered at the first site. Topspecimen measures 6cm long by 7.6cm wide and 4cm deep.

Second specimen measures 5.5cm long by 6.2cm wide and 3cmdeep;. The third specimen measures 2.5cm long by 6.2cm wide

and 2.1cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Claw of a large marsupial, possible marsupial cat. It measures10.2cm long by 6.3cm wide and 6.4cm deep.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. Mineralised marsupial palate. It measures 7cm long by 7.5cm wide and is

5.3cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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A surprise discovery at the first creek locationwere the mineralised remains of hominin skulls.As the deposits hereabouts hold mineralised

remains of marsupial carnivores and other speciesdating back at least 1 million years, the hominin

skulls belong to the Homo erectus era and aretherefore pre-Aboriginal [ie Australoid] in age.This incomplete skull possesses a distorted lower

jaw with upper and lower teeth visible andremains of a left eye socket.


The skull fragment fits in the hand and belongs to a smallish hominin.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

This incomplete skull [facial area] displays distortionand the remains of a left eye socket, a large nasal cavityand cheeks. Three calcified teeth survive on the remnantright upper jaw. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

At a second section of creek bank some distance from the first,more fragments of marsupial bones were found scattered on the

surface by the recent floodwater.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Greg Foster stands on a sandy bank below which exposed lumps of oldPleistocene mud deposits revealed more marsupial remains. Photo

copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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The exposed deposit in this photo is partlycovered by floodwaters.


Rex Gilroy searching for fossils at another nearby Pleistocene deposit.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A mineralised claw, possibly of a marsupial cat

species, recovered by Rex Gilroy at the secondfossil location. It measures 5.4cm long by 7cmwide and 3cm deep at the base.


A surprised find at the second creekside marsupial fossil locationwas the discovery by Rex Gilroy of this distorted hominin upperjaw fragment, coated in a film of lime which gives a rounded

appearance to the large teeth. The owner would have been a largeindividual. It measures 7.5cm long, 7.5cm wide and 10.2cm deep.


The hominin upper jaw fragment, right profile. Therecovery of this fossil demonstrates that primitive hominins

were contemporaneous with the marsupial megafaunawhich they would have hunted, feeding upon their kills atthis location at least 1 million years ago, competing withthe Big Cats for the marsupial and other animal andbird food supply. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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Please Note

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing you at our next one.

Our next meeting will be held on Saturday21st May, 2011 same time, same place 12 KamillaroiRoad, Katoomba.

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