Summary: Above the Gosford Railway Dams in Narara is an Aboriginal engraving site which includes a speared man, eel and fish.

A rock platform above the Gosford Railway Dam at Narara has a number of scattered figures, that were only recorded in detail and sketched in the 1970s.

Three figures are still fairly distinct: one of them is a man with a belt, who has been speared.

What looks like an eel is more weathered, and hard to see without highlighting; Ian Sim described this as a Rainbow-Serpent.

There’s a solitary and fairly large fish to the west of the speared man.

To the east of the speared man is a smaller fish (photo by Bob Pankhurst).

Near the engraving site is a the Narara Railway Dam Shelter, which contains considerable rock art.

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