This intriguing site below the Lyre Trig in Kariong seems to depict a copulating couple, and was described as such by Ian Sim in 1969: “two crudely drawn human figures partly overlapping each other, which appear to represent a man and woman copulating”.
The man is the more abstract of the two figures; Sim describes him as having “one foreshortened and footless leg, a peaked head-dress and a large pointed protuberance on one elbow”.
Sim describes the woman more succinctly: “The other figure has no breasts”.
Decades later, McCarthy documented the site as representing two men: “2 men facing one another – one has a half oval head, no eyes or neck, on top of a broad body, straight sided, ams downward, right arm straight and conical… other man has a pointed hair coil on top of his half oval head, no eyes, body bent to his left conical right shoulder at top of straight arm downward close beside his body… long parallel sided penis truncated and directly opposite the other man’s crutch”.
This is the only engraving on a small rock platform surrounded by dense scrub; it is one of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
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