Mangrove Road Daramulan

Summary: Scattered figures around this small Aboriginal engraving site near Mangrove Road include a Daramulan figure.

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motif/s: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Indeterminate figure, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shark
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of art: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1976

Above Dog Trap Gully is a small Aboriginal engraving site, which has figures scattered on adjoining rock surfaces. The most significant carving is a Daramulan figure, which is very similar in design to another Daramulan about 400m to the north-west at the Dog Trap Gully Engraving site (bottom right photo from Sydney Rock Art shows the figure highlighted).

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Nearby is a fish (or shark), which has been partly damaged.

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A very weathered male figure on another rock can only just be seen.

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The site also has a couple of mundoes (footprints); the larger one is pictured below.

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