This intriguing Aboriginal engraving site was first recorded by McCarthy in 1945, when the rock ledge jutted out above an orchard. It’s now in an undeveloped industrial estate not far from the M1/F3 freeway – an archaelogical report prepared prior to the construction of the freeway rated the site as 8/10 in terms of its significance, and also found it would not be impacted by the freeway.
Series 1
Although all the figures are engraved on one (contiguous) rock platform, McCarthy described them in two series.
Spirit Figure
A "spirit figure, with eyes outside the face"
Kangaroo
One of two kangaroo at western end of site
Kangaroo
One of two kangaroo at western end of site
Eel
Top eel, partly covered by vegetation
Eel
One of two eels
Axe Grinding Grooves
On the western side of the site is a “spirit figure”, with eyes outside the face”.
There are two kangaroos.
Partly coverered by vegetation are two eels, in a line (the upper one is half-covered).
Next to some small waterholes are multiple axe grinding grooves.
Also in the area is a spearthrower.
Series 2
Large Bird
A large bird (just under three metres in height) was thought to be of ceremonial significance
Man
Man with tall, half oval head, two big basin pit eyes, no neck, straight arms slightly upraised... his left leg is broader and straighter
Man
Man with "no head, but a convex swelling may represent it, arms bent slightly upward, right arm pointed"
Mundoe
Mundoe
Mundoe
Kangaroo
One of a pair of a kangaroos
Kangaroo
The larger kangaroo is over three metres in length, with a "convex head, conical face... a gracefully posed elegant animal standing on its hind legs and tail"
Dingo
Eel and Kangaroo
Fish
A large bird (just under three metres in height) was thought to be of ceremonial significance due to its size; it has a long, rounded head, no eyes and a broad body. Across it’s neck is a band wth 14 parallel bars between two lines.
Above the bird are two men, and below it a third man – all have outstretched arms, and are very weathered (or were less deeply grooved than most of the other figures here).
Below the bird and three men are a line of large mundoes, all of which have toes clearly displayed…
…and below the mundoes, with part of the figure covered by moss, is one of a pair of kangaroos (and one of four kangaroos in this series). Both of them are facing the same way.
The larger kangaroo is over three metres in length, with a “convex head, conical face… a gracefully posed elegant animal standing on its hind legs and tail”. This roo, unlike the smaller one, has a bar across its neck.
An animal described by McCarthy as a dingo is just under a metre in length: “long, concave head, broad pointed face, pair of pointed ears sloping forward and backward respectively”.
Next to a waterhole is an overlapping and eel, and kangaroo: “a doe posed as it takes off in a leap with its head down and inward and its body parallel with the ground”. While the kangaroo appears to have a penis, it was described as having a “straight belly with convex hump in crutch (possibly a pouch), conical foreleg sloped backward, incurved and pointed hind leg, oval vagina”.
Hard to photograph as its partly covered by silt and water leaching from the surrounding vegetation is a fish: a “Broad oval bodied fish 5’3″ long, mouth pen and upper jaw line turns inward to form a pair of conjoined ovals”.
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