Corrumbine Creek Firetrail Eels

Summary: A small Aboriginal engraving site above the Corrumbine Creek Firetrail with four eels and a small fish.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motif/s: Eel, Fish
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1969
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 168 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • Sim Reference: Mankind Vol 7, No. 1 (1969). Sheet 2, Fig 2L

Above the Corrumbine Creek Firetrail in Kariong are is an Aboriginal engraving site with four eels and a fish, first documented by Ian Sim in 1969.

IMG 5411 LR Corrumbine Creek Firetrail Eels

Three of the eels are well preserved (the fourth is very faint).

IMG 5407 LR Corrumbine Creek Firetrail Eels
IMG 5410 LR Corrumbine Creek Firetrail Eels
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