Green Point Creek Engravings

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site above Green Point Creek near Pearl Beach, which has very weathered carvings.

  • Site type: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 7
  • Motif/s: Fish, Kangaroo, Oval, Stingray
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1995
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff

Above Green Point Creek next to a spring-fed tributary is a long rock platform, which contains very weathered Aboriginal rock engravings.

AWAT2725 LR Green Point Creek Engravings

Many of the figures are unusual – or not immediately identifiable. A relatively well defined fish overlaps another indeterminate figure.

AWAT2751 LR Green Point Creek Engravings

Nearby is another very weathered fish.

AWAT2746 LR Green Point Creek Engravings

Two adjacent figures look like a poorly shaped wallaby or kangaroo, and what be a bird.

AWAT2734 LR Green Point Creek Engravings
AWAT2731 LR Green Point Creek Engravings

There’s a large U-shape figure.

AWAT2744 LR Green Point Creek Engravings

An oval-shaped figure may be a stingray, although the curved tail is unusual for such a marine creature.

AWAT2766 LR Green Point Creek Engravings
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