Christys Gully Engraved Figures

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site near Christys Gully on the Central Coast; most of the figures are very weathered.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 4
  • Motif/s: Bird Track, Indeterminate figure, Lines
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Good, Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1973
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim, Warren Bluff
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection, Site 5/5 (Mt White)
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 5/5 (Mooney Mooney-Mt White), p.34

Just below Christys Gully Charcoal and Ochre Shelter is a long rock platform with some weathered Aboriginal engravings. It was first documented by Sim who described the site very succinctly: “A few figures”.

The most prominent figure is a deeply pecked bird track.

IMG 1128 LR Christys Gully Engraved Figures
IMG 1126 LR Christys Gully Engraved Figures

Three more figures are very weathered; they include a marsupial and sinuous line.

IMG 1140 LR Christys Gully Engraved Figures

Another figure is indeterminate.

IMG 1130 LR Christys Gully Engraved Figures

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