Documented by Ian Sim in 1960, this Aboriginal engraving site in Mangrove Mountain has a number of engravings scattered along a long ridge, including a large eel or rainbow serpent.
The elevated ridge has views all the way to the distinctive Mount Yengo, considered sacred to the Aboriginal people, which is 48km to the north-west.
Series 1
Four kangaroos were recorded at the eastern end of the ridge which are “at different angles to one
another”. This group was described by McCarthy as “A kangaroo hunt with a dingo chasing one of the animals”. These figures are covered be vegetation and could not be located; there are no known photographs of these macropods.
Series 2
Located sixty feet west of Series 1 is a goanna, with “long, pointed head, no eyes or forelegs, body curved right, short finlike hind legs”.
Series 3
Described as either an eel or a rainbow serpent, this figure is 250 feet west of Series 2 on a sloping rock: “as though the rainbow serpant is climbing the rock”. (These figures are very similar to those at the Howe Aboriginal Area.) A rock has been placed at the end of the eel, possibly to protect it.
The five metre long eel has two eyes on its conical head, and two fins.
Series 4
These two figures appear more weathered than the others; they were described by Sim as “two narrow figures side by side” and by McCarthy as a “pair of upright mythological figures”.
The man on the left is 14 feet tall, with “rectangular head merged into the convex side body, 2 eyes, a pit above them and a bar below them, top of head narrows into a flat-topped half-rectangle with a vertical bar 6″ long on one side of it, body narrow at hips, long and thin straight legs”.
The man to his right is 15 feet tall and has a “round ended head at top of irregular but straight sided body of same width, 2 eyes, bar 13″ long projecting vertically upward on top of head, body narrows at hips, long and thin straight legs natural distance apart”.
There are pits in the man’s body, which may be natural (they were not noted by Sim or McCarthy).
Axe Grinding Grooves
Sim noted a number of axe grinding grooves “grooves in and around depressions in the rock surfaces”. One shallow pool has a number of grooves around it.
There is also possibly a stone arrangement, but this was not documented by Sim and is impossible to verify.
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