Callicoma Trail Oval Engraving

Summary: An oval-shaped Aboriginal rock engraving near the Callicoma Trail in Cherrybrook.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Oval
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1979
  • Originally Recorded by: R Taplin

On a rock platform near the Callicoma Trail in Cherrybrook is an Aboriginal engraving of an oval-shaped figure, at one end of a long rock platform.

1X3A2901 LR Callicoma Trail Oval Engraving

The figure was first described by R Taplin in the 1970s as “a single, heavily cut curved oval figure”.

1X3A2902 LR Callicoma Trail Oval Engraving
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