An Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo is located along a ledge of rock above Wheeler Creek, fairly close to the one of the firetrails through Red Hill Reserve.
The macropod is quite deeply engraved; a line from the kangaroo’s head and into body looks like the figure may have have been damaged by machinery or vandalism.
Adjacent to the kangaroo is a shield.
It is possible that these two figures form part of a series documented by Campbell and later McCarthy, and that the majority of them have been damaged by the nearby firetrail. Campbell described them as being on the same ledge as Plate IX, Fig 9 – but most of the motifs documented by Campbell can not be verified.
The southernmost figure is a kangaroo or wallaby, and is deeply cut. A few feet from this is a strange-looking figure ten feet long, well cut, with punctures showing slightly; it resembles the leg of a man, and is like the figure in Plate XXII, Fig 5. Next is a partly obliterated shield, having a narrow cut groove, and two shields crossed diagonally, and another kangaroo or wallaby. Above these is a rounded figure which may be another shield; it is just below a low ledge of rock which forms an amphitheatre-like seat above the group. These figures are all upon the road-line. A short angle of the road intervenes between these and the next figures, and twenty feet beyond the next angle-peg is a spear touching the schnapper [sic]; the grove of the spear shows punctures. Leading in the direction of the spear for about fifty feet distance from the two other fish to the eastward are some footsteps, and thirty feet further north is another wallaby clearly cut, and a faint outline of a fish.
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