Peak Hill (Porto Ridge) Mundoes

Summary: Five mundoes (of which only two are now visible) on an overgrown rock platform on Porto Ridge near Peak Hill.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motif/s: Mundoe (foot)
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1958
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
  • McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 71 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • McCarthy in Mankind Vol 5, No. 5 (1958). Sheet 12, Fig E, p.208

On Porto Ridge, below what was described in the 1950s as “The Pimple”, is a small rock platform with five mundoes: “Engraved on a smooth rock between two potholes (now filled with soil and low bushes) are five human foot tracks the size of a child’s foot, leading from one pothole to another… This and other sites illustrate how important were these potholes in the daily and ritual life of the Aborigines” (McCarthy 1958).

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Only two mundoes are currently visible on the partly overgrown rock platform.

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