Along a scrubby ridge in Berowra is a complex Aboriginal engraving site, which has 23 figures across two adjacent sites.
The group of men is engaged in killing 2 wallabies, one man in a different style is probably associated with the large fish beside him, and the difference in the styles of the men is notable. Otherwise fish from Berowra Wates are shown with the shields of the men. The fish are engraved as though swimming over a waterfall – it is an unusual composition.
McCarthy 1983
Series 1 (Fig 6I)
Most of the figures are on this larger rock platform, which has the four men and two wallabies (one of the two wallabies very weathered and hard to make out).
One of the wallabies is superimposed on two of the men.
The eastern-most of the four men has a 6-rayed head-dress.
The rock platform has a large “bream-like fish” and three smaller fish.
A smaller figure near the larger fish is described as a “tail like figure”.
At the western end of the rock platform are two shields – these are the best-preserved of the figures.
Series 1 (Fig 6H)
Directly below this platform are five fish, four of which are “swimming over a waterfall in a file head to tail”.
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