Tommos Loop Row of Fish

Summary: A small Aboriginal engraving site with a row of three fish near the Tommos Loop trail.

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 4
  • Motif/s: Fish
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2018
  • Originally Recorded by: Bob Pankhurst

On a small section of rock near Tommos Loop – which is surrounded by scrub (and a long way from where the closest real fish might swim) – is an Aboriginal engraving site with a row of three small fish. Bob Pankhurst noted that the fish appear to be aligned to Mount Wondabyne, which is to the south.

1X3A1951 LR Tommos Loop Row of Fish

Or to be more accurate, a row of three fish, and what appears to be part of a fish, or a very crudely drawn fourth fish, above the first one.

1X3A1946 LR Tommos Loop Row of Fish
1X3A1940 LR Tommos Loop Row of Fish
1X3A1935 LR Tommos Loop Row of Fish

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