Leochares Peak Three Fish

Summary: A line of three fish and several other very weathered Aboriginal engravings to the west of Mount Leochares.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 6
  • Motif/s: Fish
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1973
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 3/32
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 3/32 (Kariong), p.22

A large rock platform to the west of Leochares Peak has a number of Aboriginal engravings, many of them very weathered and hard to see.

IMG 1348 LR Leochares Peak Three Fish

The site is likely to includes figures recorded by Ian Sim, which he described succintly as “3 fish”. (Photo below from Bob Pankhurst.)

image 7 Leochares Peak Three Fish
image 8 Leochares Peak Three Fish

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