Basin Track Stingray

Summary: Along the Basin Track is a fairly deeply-cut stingray (or skate), on a small rock surrounded by dense scrub.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Stingray
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1898
  • Originally Recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
  • Campbell Reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 17 Fig 2 in Aboriginal Carving of Port Jackon and Broken Bay (Download)
  • McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 100 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)

A very small Aboriginal engraving site near the Basin Track, this single stingray (or skate) is deeply engraved on a rock about three feet wide by five feet in length.

Stingray (or skate) near Bason Track
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