Lyre Trig fish engraving

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving of a single fish; one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Fish
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1969
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • McCarthy reference: PATONGA Group 166 Series 11 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • Sim Reference: Mankind 7(1) 1969 Sheet 1 Fig N (Series 11, p.54)

A single Aboriginal engraving of a fish near the Lyre Trig in Kariong, with “pointed head, oval body, two eyes, two fins opposite one another one of which is attached to the outline, good tail at angle to body, as if swimming”.

1X3A6577 LR Lyre Trig fish engraving

This site forms one of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.

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