Topham Track Men engraving

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site near the Topham Trail, which has two overlapping men.

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Man
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1988

At the end of a long and narrow rock platform west of the Topham Trail is an Aboriginal engraving site. The two men were described as having “arms out horizontally, each with some sort of high belt (above navel) with a kind of dilly bag or something attached, hanging away from the body”.

AWAT5127 LR Topham Track Men engraving

You see the “dilly bag” across the body of the man on the left.

AWAT5167 LR Topham Track Men engraving
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