First documented by Ian Sim in 1966 and later by Fred McCarthy, this group of Aboriginal engravings is on “a long tessellated rock surface on the W side of the ridge between the Hawkesbury River and Patonga; site is known as McRorie’s Rock”. The extensive views from this rock platform are now largely obscured by trees.
Most of the nine figures recorded by Sim (and a further two were later found) have been covered by soil and vegetation. The group includes a man and a bisexual figure, fish and a kangaroo.
The man and the bisexual figure are about 30′ apart, and the male is smaller than the latter and is engraved among fish; he may represent a boy because of his size and the line on his wrist could be a fishing line; the bisexual figure occurs elsewhere in the Hawkesbury region and its significance is not known, but this one is apparently associated with fishing and there is a kangaroo leaping away.
McCarthy (1983)
One of the few figures which can still be seen is the male figure next to a small waterhole.
He has a “tall, haIf oval head, 2 eyes, no neck, head attached to the arc of the shoulders and outspread arms, right arm pointed with a line 18” long attached to the wrist (it does not appear to be part of a weapon) , 5 fingers on left hand, sides of body convex, straight legs outspread, flat pointed feet both turned to his right, long pointed penis.”
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