Chris Ogilvie-Herald Wrote:

> I’m looking at a photograph, sent to me some years
> ago by Rex Gilroy, of the so-called ‘Gympie
> Pyramid’. Although the hill is obscured by trees
> and the angle of the sun and shadows does little
> to help definition, it does appear that the
> formation is in the shape of a pyramid. Now, if
> this is the case, why would early Italian
> immigrants create and terrace a four-sided pyramid
> structure for the purpose of viniculture?

4 sided? Wheeler says:
"One correspondent was able to inform me of the so-called Gympie pyramid, a hill near Gympie with a triangular profile (apparently a common shape for eroded mesaforms following talus accumulation)."
and
"When I first saw the so-called pyramid for myself it was difficult to believe that we were at the right place. It's just an ordinary low grassy hill by the main road from Gympie to Tin Can Bay with an irregular covering of trees, a couple of straggly patches of prickly pear, some old stone, some dead wood bulldozed into piles, some discarded bits of barbed wire and other rubbish, and a lot of cow pats left by grazing cattle."

He doesn't say it was 4 sided or terraced all around.

Doug

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