One of five Aboriginal sites documented by Ian Sim on a spur off the main Mount Kariong ridge, this group has two men and a koala figure. They are all very weathered and hard to see.
One of the men has only one leg, which is very unusual.
the one-legged man is proably mythological as an Aboriginal could not survive after losing a leg at the hip and it was a common practice to kill a man when he had lost or broken a. leg; both of the men are posed in the same general posture as though performing a dance or ritual. The missing leg could not be hidden and must presumed as lacking. The koala may be totemic or casual but the composition is ritual rather than a hunting scene. The one-legged man is unique.
McCarthy (1983)
The second man and small koala (which is covered in moss) are very hard to see – the photos below are from Bob Pankhurst.
Just above this group of figures is a shallow waterhole, with a single grinding groove.
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