Little Beach Aboriginal engravings

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

Art type/s: Rock engraving
Number of motifs: 3
Motif/s: Fish, Kangaroo, Whale
Quality: 4/5
Condition of art: 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.

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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