Oaks Trail Kangaroo Tracks

Summary: Aboriginal rock art site along the Oaks Trail in the Blue Labyrinth area of the Blue Mountains, which has a pair of kangaroo tracks and a few scattered grinding grooves.

  • Site type: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Emu Track, Kangaroo Track
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1958
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection, Site 18 (Blue Mountains)
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical SItes in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 18 (Blue Mountains), p.67

These Aboriginal engravings on a rock platform near the Oaks Trail were first documented by Ian Sim, although he missed (or didn’t document) the grinding grooves.

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A pair of kangaroo tracks are engraved on the edge of the rock platform (a single emu track was also documented by Sim as being nearby).

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Near the kangaroo tracks are several shallow grinding grooves.

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Several more grinding grooves are located further away on the same platform.

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