Meeting Place

The legend goes as follows...

Before there as Armidale, there was the Meeting Place. The Meet Place was the site where the Indigenous Aniwan (Anaiwan)and (Gumbayniggir) people would meet to discuss their differences. A sacrifice of blood on the altar would feed the hungry earth, and the hungry earth would and avenge the petitioner if they were assaulted at the meeting place. "Let no blood be spilled, except on this altar", stories would say.

Geography

The meeting place 5km to the NW of the Armidale city centre, 1162 meteres above sea level and ~52m above the city of Armidale. The topology of the area, with the characteristic crater in the centre of the hill, is suggestive of a meteor strike or some other explosion. However, geologists have not discovered any material in the area to support these hypotheses, and the unusual 'crater' is believed to be the result of a glacial corrie.

There are three statues of the 'old gods' of Armidale. The position of the statues suggests a fourth statue, but no evidence of such a statue has been found by archeologists.