Resolute Track Snake engraving

Summary: An Aboriginal engravng of a snake (which is bent double) along the Resolute Track.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Snake
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1965
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Mankind Group 140 Series 2 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • Sim Reference: Mankind Vol 6, No. 6 1965, Sheet 2, Fig B1

One of a number of scattered Aboriginal engraving sites around the Resolute Track, this carving is of a snake. Initially recorded by McCarthy as a “faint and worn figure of a snake”, he later described it as “a headless snake, bent double” and about six feet long.

AWAT9827 LR Resolute Track Snake engraving
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