Summary: An Aboriginal rock art site next to the Mount Ku-ring-gai Track with a single fish in red ochre.
Site type: Cave Painting
Number of motifs: 1
Motif/s: Fish
Quality: 2/5
Condition of site: Graffiti damage
Year first recorded: 2017
In a shelter next to the Mount Ku-ring-gai walking track is an Aboriginal drawing of a fish in red ochre; unfortunately the entire cave is full of grafitti, some of it over the art.
The shelter in in a very protected, semi-rainforest gully and close to fresh water.
Hornsby Shire - which is the largest LGA in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan region - contains approximately 600 recorded Aboriginal rock art sites (and over 1,200 Aboriginal heritage sites). These date back from thousands of years to post-European contact art.
Yengo National Park was an important spiritual and cultural place for the Darkinjung and Wonnarua People for thousands of years, and 640 Aboriginal cultural sites are recorded in the park and nearby areas.
There are about 300 recorded Aboriginal heritage sites in Wollemi National Park, with the rugged and remote environment meaning many sites are yet to be "discovered" and recorded.
Many sites Aboriginal engraving sites across the inner suburbs of Sydney have been destroyed or are very weatheredl. The sites which remain are isolated from their natural environment.
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