Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site in Strickland State Forest, which feaures a large Daramulan figure.

An Aboriginal rock engraving site which seems significant, but was not documented in any detail by the early Australian Aboriginal anthropologists. Near the centre of the rock platform is an enormous Daramulan figure.

The figure has a rayed head-dress, and two bands of horizontal lines across its upper body.

There are two kangaroos, one of which has been speared.

Two echidnas are engraved in the sandstone.

There are two koalas (the term “koala” can refer to a Daramulan figure, but in this case appears to refer to a “koala bear”, the term more commonly used to describe the native animal).

Five mundoes (footprints) cross the site; two pairs and and an individual one (some of them are very weathered).

There are also a few indeterminate figures, and part of a fish.

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Aboriginal Sites by National Park

The Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area protects over 3,000 known Aboriginal heritage sites, and many more which are yet to be recorded. This area includes the Blue Mountains National Park, Gardens of Stone, Wollemi National Park and Yengo National Park.
Over 40 sites have been recorded within the park; many were located along the river bank and were flooded by the building of the weir in 1938.
Hornsby Shire - which is the largest LGA in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan region - contains approximately 600 recorded Aboriginal rock art sites (and over 1,200 Aboriginal heritage sites). These date back from thousands of years to post-European contact art.