Bulls Hill Firetrail Kangaroo

Summary: Partly covered by silt, an Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo is on a small outcrop with a view of Mount Wondabyne.

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Kangaroo
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of art: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1966
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 152 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • Sim Reference: Mankind 6(8) 1966 Sheet 1, Fig G

This Aboriginal engraving site was first documented by Ian Sim, who described it as a “Figure of a kangaroo engraved in a shallow depression on top of a high outcrop”. It faces the distant Mount Wondabyne, its view now slightly marred by an electricity pylon.

AWAT1567 LR Bulls Hill Firetrail Kangaroo

The tail and back of the kangaroo is still fairly visible – but a large part of its body has been silted over.

AWAT1562 LR Bulls Hill Firetrail Kangaroo
AWAT1564 LR Bulls Hill Firetrail Kangaroo

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