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

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”.

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

The intaglio boomerang is fairly unusual.

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

The smaller mundoe is also fairly weathered.

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