Bowen Hill Trail Woman

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving of a woman with upstretched arms, on a small and isolated rock platform.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Woman
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2019

On one of many scattered rock surfaces in a grassy meadow near the Bowen Hill Trail is an Aboriginal rock engraving of a woman.

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Most of the figure (which is just over a metre in height.) is visible, although the left part of her body (breast and leg) are weathered. Both arms are upstretched.

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On a separate, nearby rock surface is what may be an axe grinding groove.

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