Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site near Kowara Road in Somersby, which has five figures including two unusually-shaped macropods.

A small Aboriginal engraving site which was recorded by Ian Sim in his Sim Collection as comprising: “bird, boomerang, koala, kangaroo, footprint”. The site was later documented in more detail by an Environmental Impact Assessment in 1951, and the description of the figures changed to “a bird with a long beak and a line above its head, a boomerang, a koala (?), a dingo (?) and a large footprint (?)”. Since these recordings, most of the engravings have been lost to encroaching soil and vegetation.

The small pothole has a pecked water channel, but any axe grinding grooves are covered by moss.

Nearby are the two figures, in close proximity.

One could be a native cat or dingo?

…and this one a wallaby or kangaroo?

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