Mt Ku-ring-gai Oval Boomerangs

Summary: A small Aboriginal rock engraving site partly destroyed by the construction of the F3 freeway. It has five figures, including two intaglio boomerangs.

  • Site type: Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motif/s: Boomerang, Kangaroo Track, Mundoe (foot)
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1981
  • J.C. Lough, Freeway No. 3 Archaeological Survey, May 1981

This Aboriginal engraving site between the Mt Ku-ring-gai Oval and F3 freeway was partly destroyed by the construction of the freeway. Originally there was a set of axe grinding grooves as well as the engravings; the grooves no longer exist. What remains was described in an archaeological survey as a “fairly minor site” which “consists of two mundoes, two boomerangs, kangaroo tracks… of some interest are the boomerangs, which are not in outline, but have pecked surfaces”.

Engraving HB9 Mt Ku-ring-gai Oval Boomerangs

One of the two boomerangs and the two mundoes are weathered but still visible.

1X3A8149 LR Mt Ku-ring-gai Oval Boomerangs

The intaglio boomerang is fairly unusual.

1X3A8166 LR Mt Ku-ring-gai Oval Boomerangs

The toes of the larger mundoe have worn away; just above it are the shallow kangaroo tracks.

1X3A8125 LR Mt Ku-ring-gai Oval Boomerangs

The smaller mundoe is also fairly weathered.

1X3A8140 LR Mt Ku-ring-gai Oval Boomerangs

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