Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site along Flat Rocks Ridge in Gunderman, which has multiple wallabies, boomerangs and a pelican.

The Flat Rocks Ridge Group 1 Aboriginal engraving site in Gunderman has been described as potentially depicting “the hunting of a kangaroo (or wallaby) with boomerangs”. Most of the engravings are very indistinct, and were described by McCarthy in 1956 as “though not weathered to any extent [they] are difficult to discern because the grooves have become coloured by weather and lichen in the same way as the rock surface itself.”

Series 1

The most distinct engravings are those in “Series 1”, which include “a beautiful pelican, 4 ft 6 in. long. with no legs, as though it is swimming, and its bill rubbed into an intaglio groove. With it is an animal-like figure of indeterminate nature, and a male wallaby 4 ft 6 in. long with a triangle of rubbed intaglio work on the underside of its neck, unusual single line endings to the front and hind legs, and a long, sharply pointed tail”.

Above these figures is “a crudely drawn kangaroo, 6 ft 9 in long, with a large rounded head and short tail”, and to the east (on the south-eastern corner of the rock) is another series of small figures which include more wallabies and two mundoes.

Series 2

About ten metres south of Series 2 (on a separate rock) is an indefinite figure is a small, incomplete and weathered emu.

Series 3

Just over 30m to the south-east is another rock which has four returning boomerangs.

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