Waratah Track Club and AGGs

Summary: Aboriginal engraving site which has a set of axe grinding grooves next to a waterhole, and three engraved figures. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)

  • Art type/s: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Club, Echidna, Fish
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of art: Weathered
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1954
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
  • McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 115/116 & Mankind Group 48 S2 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • McCarthy in Mankind Vol 5, No. 1 (1954). Fig 8B. p.21-23

In the middle of a rock platform opposite the Waratah Track is small pothole, with six axe grinding grooves (AGGs) in a parallel set. This forms part of the Arden Trig series of Aboriginal sites.

AWAT5827 LR Waratah Track Club and AGGs
AWAT5870 LR Waratah Track Club and AGGs

Near these AGGs are three engravings. There is the very weathered tail end of a fish.

AWAT2823 LR Waratah Track Club and AGGs

A “phacoid-headed club, with a large natural pit in the centre of the head, like an eye; the first record of this type of club in the Sydney district”.

AWAT2837 LR Waratah Track Club and AGGs

Nearby is “the posterior part of an echidna”, which I couldn’t locate (it is likely very weathered).

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