One of the more unusual Aboriginal engravings around Mount White is a European ship – “a small fore and aft rigged sloop type vessel, of the type used extensively on the Hawkesbury in early days”. It’s on a small patch of rock near a creek.
Along the creek are over fifty axe grinding grooves, many of them around a large but shallow pool below a small waterfall.
Above the pool are more grinding gooves, and an grooved water channel.
There are another set of grooves slightly further up the creek, which appears to a fairly reliable source of water.
Another rock platform to the east has a very small engraving of a woman.
The site was documented in two series by Ian Sim:
- Series 1 – sailing ship, indeterminate animal and axe grinding grooves
- Series 2 – woman
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