Warrah Trig Road Fish and AGGs

Summary: Two Aboriginal engravings of fish (and axe grinding grooves) on a rock platform below the Warrah Trig Road

  • Site type: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
  • Number of sites: 2
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Fish
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1966
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
  • McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 151 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • Sim Reference: Mankind Vol 6, No 8 (1966). Sheet 1, Fig F
  • Robert Pankhurst in Badanga Dreaming [PDF]

There are a two fish engravings on a broad rock platform just below the Warrah Trig Road. Interestingly, Sim only recorded one of the figures here – a “broad fish… breamlike, pointed head, one eye”.

AWAT8760 LR Warrah Trig Road Fish and AGGs
AWAT8762 LR Warrah Trig Road Fish and AGGs

A bit further north on the same platform is anothered weathered figure, which appears to also be a fish.

AWAT8752 LR Warrah Trig Road Fish and AGGs

Near the second fish engraving are a few axe grinding grooves.

AWAT8743 LR Warrah Trig Road Fish and AGGs
AWAT8744 LR Warrah Trig Road Fish and AGGs

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