The Group 2 Aboriginal engraving site is one of the most interesting of all the Flat Rocks Ridge sites, which…
…is obviously a group of gigantic dreamtime animals explained by chants and stories to initiates taken to this rock. No myth has been recorded from the Daruk tribe to explain this group, which probably represents the legendary figures of a kangaroo killed by members of the dingo totem, forming part of an historical saga connected with this ridge as a whole.
McCarthy (1961)
Sadly, the figures are very weathered and hard to see without perfect lighting conditions.
Series 1
At the western end of the rock platform are six figures, including three wallabies or kangaroos, a koala (as in the animal, not a Daramulan figure, according to McCarthy) and a woman “7 ft 3 in long in an agitated dancing pose,
with arms curved (fingers shown) above her head”.
Series 2
A group of figures about 20m east of Series 1 has “one of the finest and most impressive pictorial compositions yet recorded among the rock engravings of the Sydney-Hawkesbury district: a gigantic kangaroo which has been hit by twelve boomerangs”.
The pose is stylized, semi-leaping in nature. This huge animal has been struck with twelve boomerangs from 1 to 2 ft long, some of which have the deep curve of the returning type and others the shallow curve of the non-returning boomerang. One might be a bladed throwing club. Five have hit the animal on the face, three on the neck, and one on the stomach.
McCarthy (1961)
About seven metres to the east are two dingoesm who are “in hot pursuit of the kangaroo, their months open and tails held up. They are well placed in the composition, and are unusually animated and unique depictions of this animal”.
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