Mount White Aboriginal Stone Arrangement

Summary: Aboriginal stone arrangement and engravings of three fish on a ridge near Mount White.

  • Site type: Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Fish
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of site: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1976
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 5/40
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 5/40 (Mooney Mooney – Mount White) p.40

On a ridge south of Mount White are multiple Aboriginal stone arrangements; there are three small heaps which were first documented by Ian Sim in the 1960s, and known to locals since the area was settled.

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1X3A0344 Mount White Aboriginal Stone Arrangement

Next to one of the stone piles are three engravings of fish, swimming in a northerly direction.

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1X3A0373 enhanced Mount White Aboriginal Stone Arrangement

All of the fish are very faint.

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1X3A0354 Mount White Aboriginal Stone Arrangement
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