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

Hornsby Shire - which is the largest LGA in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan region - contains approximately 600 recorded Aboriginal rock art sites (and over 1,200 Aboriginal heritage sites). These date back from thousands of years to post-European contact art.
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.