Below Mount White are a number of Aboriginal engravings and grinding grooves sites, which were documented by Ian Sim in a series of seven sites. They include a Daramulan figure, two men, animals and an intriguing “buttocks and penis” figure.
Series 1
The northern-most site was recorded by Sim as having a shield, two birds, a goanna and lines. The weathered figure below doesn’t appear to have been documented by Sim.
Series 2
This site was recorded as having a kangaroo (which could not be located).
Series 3
A larger rock platform south-east of Series 2 has an emu, two men, a bird, a kangaroo and a Daramulan figure. The Daramulan (photo by Bob Pankhurst) points to a similar figure at Mount Calga; its head has been drawn around a circular hole in the rock surface.
A second figure – which also looks like a Daramulan – may have been documented by Sim as a koala.
The large figure below – described by Bob Pankhurst as “largest drawing of a lizard I know of in this district” (but “could also represent a stretched type man”) was recorded by Sim as being a man.
The second man (photo by Bob Pankhurst) has “a belt and an unusual head”.
Series 4
Below a small waterhole is an unusual engraving described by Sim as an “outline of arms, buttocks and penis”.
Next to the small waterhole are a number of axe grinding grooves.
This site said by Sim to be “associated with rock shelter drawings” (the Mount White Charcoal Gallery).
Series 5
To the south-east of Series 4 is part of a wallaby, an oval, four mundoes and 12 axe grinding grooves.
Series 6
South-west of Series 5 are two animals and eight axe grinding grooves.
Series 7
This site has not been re-located; it was documented as having 12 axe grinding grooves.
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