Towlers Bay Track engravings

Summary: Scattered figures including two fish and a small man at the start of the Towlers Bay Track at West Head

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Motif/s: Fish, Man
  • Quality: 1.5/5
  • Condition of art: Weathered
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1899
  • Originally Recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
  • Campbell Reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 7 in Aboriginal Carving of Port Jackon and Broken Bay (Download)
  • McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 107 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)

Near the start of the Towlers Bay Track are some Aboriginal engravings on scattered rock surfaces. The figures include three fish.

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Near the two fish are two very weathered figures, which were not originally recorded.

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Another platform what appears to be a small figure with upstretched arms.

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A shield and three eels are no longer visible.

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