Summary: Two rows of mundoes near West Head Road which may have represented the tracks of mythological men; much of the site is now covered over.

This Aboriginal engraving site near the head of Towlers Bay valley must once have been an impressive site, with the rock platform crossed by two lines of mundoes. It was first recorded by W.D. Campbell, who described it as “tracks of one or two mythological men and one of their shields”. Much of the site is now covered by thick vegetation, and less than half of the figures are still visible.

A row of four mundoes in one of the “sinuous lines” can be seen; most of them are fairly deeply grooved.

Another four mundoes are still visible in another line.

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