Wheeler Creek Shields

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

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Shield
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1899
  • Originally Recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
  • Campbell Reference: MANLY Plate 9 Fig 8 in Aboriginal Carving of Port Jackon and Broken Bay (Download)
  • McCarthy reference: MANLY Group 49 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)

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.

IMG 0241 LR Wheeler Creek Shields
IMG 0250 LR Wheeler Creek Shields

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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