On a rock platform along a small creek near the Kariong Sacred Lands is an Aboriginal engraving site, which was first documented by William Campbell in 1899.
The figure was described by Campbell as “The figure of an emu, much weathered. Punctures are showing.” About eighty years later McCarthy documented the figure as “probably a dead emu… The neck and head are curved downward as though the bird is dead and lying on the ground. Groove weathered, pits visible”. I couldn’t find this weathered figure; the photo below was taken by Bob Pankhurst.
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