Calga Rainbow Serpent & Kangaroos

Summary: Aboriginal rock site above Peats Ridge Road, which has four kangaroos and a figure described by Ian Sim as a Rainbow Serpent,

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motif/s: Fish, Kangaroo, Rainbow Serpent
  • Quality: 4.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch (Bob Pankhurst)
  • Year first recorded: 1976
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 4/13
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 4/13 (Calga-Peats Ridge)

Above Peats Ridge Road is a small Aboriginal rock engraving site, with five quite distinctly engraved figures – four of them kangaroos.

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The largest kangaroo is at the western end of the site, on a sloping section of the rock platform.

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Below the large kangaroos and two smaller kangaroos, or wallabies.

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As the eastern end of the site is the fourth kangaroo.

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Between the two largest kangaroos is a long marine creature, which looks like a fish or eel, and was described by Ian Sim as a Rainbow Serpent.

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