Lobster Ridge Circles and Shields

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site near the Flannel Flower Walking Track in Bouddi NP, which has multiple ovals/circles, two shields and a club or boomerang.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 6
  • Motif/s: Boomerang, Jellyfish, Oval, Shield, Stingray
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good, Vandalised
  • Year first recorded: 1976
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 1/15
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“SIm Collection”), Site 1/15 (Kincumber Peninsula), p.4

Located near the Flannel Flower Walking Track on the top of the ridge above Lobster Beach, this small rock platform has several Aboriginal rock engravings. While none of the figures appear significantly damaged, the proximity of the site to a popular bushwalking track means it’s frequently visited – and some idiots have carved initials across one of the figures.

The most obvious figures are four ovals, or circles – one of them has an irregular shape and what appears to be two eyes.

1X3A1963 LR Lobster Ridge Circles and Shields
1X3A1961 LR Lobster Ridge Circles and Shields
1X3A1964 LR Lobster Ridge Circles and Shields

A short distance away is another circle, or a jellyfish (as the figure has two short lines coming out from one side).

1X3A1986 LR Lobster Ridge Circles and Shields

At the edge of the rock platform are two shields, both with a single longitudinal line and two transverse lines.

1X3A1966 LR Lobster Ridge Circles and Shields

Much less distrinct is what could be a club or boomerang.

1X3A1973 LR Lobster Ridge Circles and Shields

The site was documented by Ian Sim in 1976, who succinctly described the site as “A group of circles, shields and fish”.

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