Flat Rocks Ridge – Group 11 Aboriginal engraving site

Summary: A small Aboriginal engraving site along Flat Rocks Ridge in Gunderman with an echidna and three mundoes.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 4
  • Motif/s: Echidna, Mundoe (foot)
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1961
  • F.D. McCarthy, “Rock engravings of the Sydney-Hawkesbury District. Part 1: Flat Rocks Ridge: a Daruk ceremonial ground” in Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. 25, Series 5 (1956)
  • J.C. Lough, Flat Rocks Ridge Engravings (1961)

One of the many Aboriginal engraving sites along Flat Rocks Ridge in Gunderman, Group 11 has been described as “a small but interesting group”. The group of figures is scrattered across multiple snall rocks, and most of them can no longer be located – one of the groups may have been destroyed by the firetrail that follows the ridge.

Engraving Flat Rock Ridge Group11 Flat Rocks Ridge - Group 11 Aboriginal engraving site

One of the figures which can still be seen is a “beautifully portrayed echidna, bearing a few dots and two projections on the back which might be intended to indicate the spines”.

1X3A0699 LR Flat Rocks Ridge - Group 11 Aboriginal engraving site

Next to the echidna are three mundoes.

1X3A0714 LR Flat Rocks Ridge - Group 11 Aboriginal engraving site
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