Leochares Peak Kangaroo

Summary: A large, tesselated rock platform below Leochares Peak which has an Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo.

  • Site type: Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Kangaroo
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1973
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 3/33
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 3/33 (Kariong), p.22

On the south-west slopes of Leochares Peak is a “well proportioned kangaroo” (Bob Pankhurst), which was first documented by Ian Sim as “Kangaroo and 2 footprints”. The engraving is either covered by vegetation or very weathered and could not be re-located; the photo below is from Bob Pankhurst.

image 6 Leochares Peak Kangaroo

The engraving is on a large, tesselated rock platform.

IMG 1327 LR Leochares Peak Kangaroo

One end of the platform has a large scatter of small rocks, which may be the remnants of a stone arrangement.

IMG 1329 LR Leochares Peak Kangaroo

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