Carisbrook Stone Arrangement

The Carisbrook Stone Arrangement is a well-preserved Aboriginal ceremonial site on the banks of Tullaroop Creek, about 5 km southeast of Carisbrook in Victoria, Australia. Measuring 60 by 5 metres, it consists of a double arc of boulders forming a boomerang shape, a stone cairn, and smaller circles -- making it the only boomerang-design stone arrangement in the state and one of only four stone arrangements in Victoria. First reported in the 1960s and surveyed in the 1980s by the Victorian Archaeological Survey, the site was purchased by the state government in 1975 and declared an Archaeological Area under the Archaeological and Aboriginal Relics Protection Act 1972. The Indigenous Land Council acquired the surrounding farm in 1997 and divested it to the Ballarat Aboriginal Co-op as custodians.