Mt Ku-ring-gai Track engravings

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site above the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track with a giant bandicoot, echidna, three men and what may be an ancestral figure.

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 6
  • Motif/s: Bandicoot, Deity, Echidna, Man
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of art: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1982

Above the Mt Ku-ring-gail Track, on adjacent rock platforms surrounded by scrub, is an Aboriginal engraving site. The figures include a giant bandicoot, echidna, three men and what may be an ancestral figure.

The bandicoot is over a meter in length, on the edge of a rock.

AWAT9781 LR Mt Ku-ring-gai Track engravings
AWAT9862 LR Mt Ku-ring-gai Track engravings

There is considerable detail in its long mouth, or snout.

AWAT9735 LR Mt Ku-ring-gai Track engravings

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