Tommos Loop Marine Creature engraving

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site above Tommos Loop, which has a large marine creature and some smaller figures.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motif/s: Fish, Indeterminate figure, Mundoe (foot)
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1993
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff, C. Douchkov

On one of many scattered rock surfaces surrounded by scrub above the Tommos Loop trail is an intriguing Aboriginal engraving. It has the overall appearance of a marine creature – which has possibly been speared.

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Near the top of the figure is a row of two or three fish; the third fish overlaps with the main figure.

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The right-hand side of the figure is drawn with two parallel lines.

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Near this figure are two or three mundoes, which are very weathered.

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