This fairly complex Aboriginal engraving site is located along an informal bushwalking and mountain-biking track in Red Hill Reserve. None of the figures have been damaged, although some are now covered by silt.
A rock where people obtained water on top of the ridge and indulged in engraving a variety of animals and tracks, and also line figures which are unique. Campbell identified the head of a 3-pronged fishing spear near the man’s legs but I cannot see it in his diagram, and also a phallic symbol which is really a bent line with a bifurcated end.
McCarthy (1983)
In the main group of figures is a man who is “5′ tall, oval head tilted to his left, no eyes, straight arms upraised, 5 pointed fingers (thumb separated) on right hand, left arm truncated, straight sided body, belt”. Overlapping his legs is a “broad bodied fish” which is “probably a dolphin” and above the man’s right arm is another marine creature (described as a “young seal”).
Next to the man’s arm is an oval “with an angled top, a bar across the top end, and a double line extending from the top”, a slender fish, and a “Iine design like a figure of eight”.
Next to these figures is a dolphin, and a line of four mundoes (there are eleven mundoes in total). In front of the dolphin is an insect.
Below the slender fish is one of two eels (there is also a third, headless eel).
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