Long Trail axe engraving

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving of an axe and a second indeterminate figure, near the Long Track.

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Axe, Indeterminate figure
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of art: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1983
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff

The figures at this Aboriginal engraving site near the Long Trail (or Long Track) are hard to make out. One of them appears to represent a hafted axe.

AWAT0264 LR Long Trail axe engraving

The second figure is hard to make out what it represents.

AWAT0277 LR Long Trail axe engraving
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