Summary: Three Aboriginal engravings of indeterminate figures on a rock platform above Blackbutt Creek.
Art type/s: Rock engraving
Number of motifs: 3
Motif/s: Indeterminate figure
Quality: 1/5
Condition of art: Weathered
Year first recorded: 1990
These weathered Aboriginal engravings are on a rock platform above Blackbutt Creek; the carvings are weathered and it’s impossible to determine what they represent.
A review of different techniques for photographing Aboriginal rock art. This includdes oblique flash, chain and planar mosaic imaging which combines hundreds of overlapping photos.
Many sites Aboriginal engraving sites across the inner suburbs of Sydney have been destroyed or are very weatheredl. The sites which remain are isolated from their natural environment.
Over a hundred Aboriginal sites have been recorded in the Hornsby region, with many of these in the Berowra Valley National Park and around the suburb of Berowra.
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