Cole Trig Fish

Summary: A partly damaged Aboriginal engraving of a fish, along the track to Taffys Rock.

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Fish
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Partially Destroyed
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1899
  • Originally Recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
  • Campbell Reference: COWAN Plate 23 Fig 12 in Aboriginal Carving of Port Jackon and Broken Bay (Download)
  • McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 152 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)

On the ridge near the Cole Trig station is an Aboriginal engraving of a fish, described initially by W.D. Campbell in 1899 as a skate (stingray), and later by McCarthy as a flathead fish. The figure has been slightly exfoliated, with a section of its head missing.

AWAT2653 LR Cole Trig Fish
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