Summary: Aboriginal engraving and stone arrangement sites to the north-west of the main Devils Rock platform at Maroota.

The sites below are to the north-west of the main Devils Rock Aboriginal engraving site, and contain a stone arrangement and Aboriginal engravings.

Stone Arrangement

Although the authenticity of Aboriginal stone arrangements can be hard to verify, this circle of stones was documented as being genuine by Jo McDonald in the 1980s. There has been minimal impact to this arrangement almost forty years later.

Anthropomorph

Further north on a long ledge are a number of figures; the most unusual is an anthropomorph, which has a boomerang above its head.

A little further north on the same rock platform is another boomerang.

A third boomerang and mundoe were not found.

Kangaroos and Emu

Adjacent to the previous site, this relatively small rock platform contains 15 figures – all of them very faint. They include what appears to be a female figure.

There are at least four animals, of which at least one is a kangaroo.

An emu, more animals and 5 mundoes could not be seen.

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