Mount White Emu and Stone Arrangement

Summary: A large platform below a ridge near Mount White it has a possible Aboriginal stone arrangement and rock engravings.

  • Site type: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Emu
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1973
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff, C. Douchkov
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 5/10
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 5/10 (Mooney Mooney – Mount White), p.35

A large rock platform on a ridge near Mount White has Aboriginal engravings first documented by Ian Sim: “Emu, footprints, bird tracks, indeterminate object, lines and a few axe grinding grooves”.

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The most prominent engraving is the emu, which is in on a section of rock that has frequent seepage.

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There are a number of grooved water channels across the platform.

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Sim also noted a stone arrangement; multiple scatters of rock may be the remnants of a bora ring.

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It is one of a small number of Aboriginal rock art sites where the stone arrangement is visible in satellite imagery.

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To the east is Leochares Peak and Mount Kariong.

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