Mount Olive Trail, Popran National Park

Large Kangaroo Engraving amongst others.

Series of Axe Groove-like engravings

The Mount Olive Trail is accessible via Ironbark Rd, Mangrove Mountain. This engraving platform is one of many small scattered platforms located a very short distance from the picnic area.

248 Trail, Popran National Park

 Pair of Banded Eels

Some say this is an Echidna engraving

Feint engraving on tesselated platform

Large open meeting place with some stone arrangements

Appears to be a small bullroarer type engraving

The 248 Trail in Popran National Park is well worth a visit. The start of this trail is a short distance from the picnic area that contains some interpretative signs. This trail is well suited to mountain bikes and around a 60 minute return trip through some beautiful forest. The rock platform at the end of the trail contains many circle engravings that lead off in many directions.

Stone Arrangement & Engraving Site, Calga

This stone arrangement is not hard to find on the large rock platform near the south-western boundary of the Rocla Quarry at Calga NSW. It marks a significant space in this area and is central to the community protest action in regard to the expansion of the Rocla Quarry. This arrangement is close to an engraving of a woman, emu and a significant hand - linked in the Darkingjung tradition as a sacred women-only site. I am not sure if the Guringai tradition would suggest otherwise nevertheless the Rocla expansion should be prevented - last chance to preserve sacred land.

Interstingly there are several engraving sites close by not documented or acknowledged in the Aboriginal Heritage Assessment that was commissioned by Rocla in 2009. One is totally destroyed through leeching from the quarry is only about 150 metres NWW where a boundary fence has been moved east of the engraving site at some stage. Maybe there is a problem with the conversion or loss of data from historical records to the AHMIS database.