Leochares Peak Daramulan

Summary: A very weathered Daramulan figure, shield and boomerang on a sloping rock platform to the west of Mount Leochares.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Boomerang, Daramulan, Shield
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1973
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 3/31
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 3/31 (Kariong), p.22

Several very weathered Aboriginal engravings were documented on this rock platform to the west of Leochares Peak by Ian Sim and Bob Pankhurst. The largest figure was described by Sim as a “Daramulan figure”.

IMG 1374 LR Leochares Peak Daramulan

Nearby is a shield (not documented by Sim) and a boomerang – photo below from Bob Pankhurst.

image 9 Leochares Peak Daramulan
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