Red Hill Trail Fish

Summary: An Aboriginal rock engraving site in the Red Hill Reserve depicting a single fish.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Fish
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Graffiti damage
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1963
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • McCarthy reference: MANLY Group 121 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • Sim Reference: Mankind Vol 6, No. 2 (1963). p.55. Plate E, Fig E.

Unfortunately the location of this Aboriginal rock engraving site next to a firetrail means that the small boulder has been defaced by graffiti; although some sites are arguably best kept “secret”, this one needs some signage or protection.

IMG 0207 LR Red Hill Trail Fish

Engraved on the rock is a single fish, which was first documented by Ian Sim in 1963.

IMG 0206 LR Red Hill Trail Fish

Sim documented two more figures near this one (an indeterminate figure resembling a snake 30m to the west and an eel or club 35m to the west) – both of these are likely to be covered by vegetation and could not be located.

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