Summary: Aboriginal engraving site on a rock platform above Wheeler Creek which depicts two shields.

Towards the end of a long rock platform above Wheeler Creek are Aboriginal engravings of two shields. Both shields have a single longitudinal and transverse line.

The site was first documented by W.D. Campbell in 1899 who also noted “the outline of another figure probably a kangaroo”, and later by Fred McCarthy who documented a “Faint stingray half of whose body has weathered away”.

The same ledge also has a deeply engraved kangaroo and a shield (Wheeler Creek Kangaroo and a school of fish and another kangaroo Wheeler Creek Fish and Kangaroo).

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Aboriginal Sites by National Park

The Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area protects over 3,000 known Aboriginal heritage sites, and many more which are yet to be recorded. This area includes the Blue Mountains National Park, Gardens of Stone, Wollemi National Park and Yengo National Park.
Over 40 sites have been recorded within the park; many were located along the river bank and were flooded by the building of the weir in 1938.