Warrah Trig Road Fish

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving of a single, broad fish on a small rock platform between Warrah Trig Road and Patonga Drive.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Fish
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1976
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 54 Series 5 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection 7/2
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 7/2 (Wondabyne) p.52
  • McCarthy in Mankind Vol 5, No 1 (1954), Plate B, Fig 6C. p.29-31 (Wondabyne)

A single fish engraving between Patonga Drive and Warrah Trig Road, on a small rock platform. It is fairly weathered and a little hard to see without the right light, but has a broad body and a large, forked tail.

AWAT2084 LR Warrah Trig Road Fish

The fish forms part of McCarthy’s Warrah Sanctuary group of Aboriginal engravings.

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