Handprint in concrete

Area of trace fossil

Bexley North is a suburb in Bayside Council, NSW in Southern Sydney. In this area there is a popular bike riding and dog walking track that runs along Bardwell Creek. However there is a concrete footpath adjacent to the dirt track that runs along the creek. Over the past few years there have been restorations to the concrete footpath.

Trace fossil

During one of the restorations to the concrete footpath in this area, someone has created a human handprint in the wet cement. This has preserved into a trace fossil of a human handprint in the concrete of the footpath along Bardwell Creek, shown in Figure 1 below.

Figure 1. Human handprint trace in concrete substrate.

It cannot be determined when this handprint was formed in the concrete as there is not date etched into the concrete. It is also impossible to determine if this hand print was produced by a man or woman because hand sizes and shapes differ significantly within the population.

By Csilla Turcsányi.