Little Beach Aboriginal engravings

Summary: The Little Beach Aboriginal engraving site has two vertical engravings, of a whale and a fish.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Fish, Kangaroo, Whale
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1977
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 1/6
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“SIm Collection”), Site 1/6 (Kincumber Peninsula), p.2

Hidden in a narrow gully is large boulder which features a vertical engraving of a whale; inside the whale is an engraving of a large fish.

AWAT6158 LR Little Beach Aboriginal engravings
AWAT6159 LR Little Beach Aboriginal engravings

On an adjacent rock is another vertical engraving of a fish, roughly cut.

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Nearby is another engraving, described by Ian Sim as a kangaroo (it also appears to depict the upper part of a figure holding an object).

figure littlebeach Little Beach Aboriginal engravings
Source: Sydney Rock Art
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