Mount White Mundoes and Circles

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site with (at least) two mundoes and some circles on a ridge near Mount White.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Mundoe (foot)
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1973
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 5/14
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 5/14 (Mooney Mooney – Mount White), p.35

A large platform on a long ridge near Mount White which includes two mundoes; these are likely to form part of a series of “6 footprints and 5 circles with radial arms” documented by Ian Sim.

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Near the mundoes are a number of circles which appear to be engraved, but may be natural.

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