{"id":"CAMPBELL1899-001","label":"Ellis Trig oval engraving","people_or_site":"Ellis Trig North, Cottage Point, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park; site ID 45-6-0278; Campbell BROKEN BAY Plate 12 fig. 2, McCarthy BROKEN BAY Group 122","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"New South Wales / Ku-ring-gai / Cottage Point","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"oval bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A small pecked oval, or teardrop-shaped, engraved motif on a weathered sandstone platform, sitting immediately beside a group of three nested curved sword-club/non-returning-boomerang figures. The same panel carries a pierced marine animal (a seal, speared) and other curved implement forms. Campbell's 1899 plan draws the oval plainly but gives it no functional caption of its own; the current site record reads it as an oval bullroarer, an unusual motif on this panel.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"rock_art_depiction","source_key":"campbell1899_broken_bay_plate12_fig2","source_type":"archaeological_catalog","source_url":"https://hikingtheworld.blog/engravings/ellis-trig-north-cottage-point/","page_or_plate":"Campbell 1899, BROKEN BAY Plate 12, fig. 2; McCarthy 1983, BROKEN BAY Group 122 (cited, not directly read)","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Representative locality point at Cottage Point, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, New South Wales; the exact coordinate of the engraving platform (site ID 45-6-0278) is deliberately not given, as for other Sydney Basin engraving sites.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On a weathered sandstone platform at Ellis Trig North, above Cottage Point in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, a small pecked oval sits beside a cluster of curved implement engravings and a marine animal pierced by a spear. W. D. Campbell surveyed and drew the whole group in 1899 for the New South Wales Geological Survey, though his plate gives the oval no caption of its own. Later cataloguing by Frederick McCarthy is cited as reading that shape as an unusual motif on this panel: an oval bullroarer, set apart from the three boomerang-like forms beside it. The engravings are all very weathered and difficult to see.","pull_quote":"The site also has an engraving of a seal that's been pierced by a spear, and next to the boomerangs is an oval bullroarer (an unusual motif).","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Current illustrated site record, hikingtheworld.blog/engravings/ellis-trig-north-cottage-point/","term_gloss":"No local term recorded; \"oval bullroarer\" is the current site record's descriptive phrase for the motif, citing McCarthy's 1983 catalogue.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"rock_art","date_display":"c. 3000 BC–AD 1800","date_qualification":"Regional engraving horizon; motif undated.","date_basis":"broad_context","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"campbell1899_broken_bay_plate12_fig2, Campbell 1899 BROKEN BAY pl. XII fig. 2; McCarthy 1983 BROKEN BAY Group 122; Stanbury and Clegg 2000","sources":[{"citation":"W. D. Campbell, Aboriginal Carvings of Port Jackson and Broken Bay, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Ethnological Series No. 1 (1899), Broken Bay Plate 12, fig. 2; F. D. McCarthy, Catalogue of Rock Engravings in the Sydney-Hawkesbury District, N.S.W. (1983), Broken Bay Group 122","url":"https://hikingtheworld.blog/engravings/ellis-trig-north-cottage-point/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250518054535/https://hikingtheworld.blog/engravings/ellis-trig-north-cottage-point/"}],"source_citations":"W. D. Campbell, Aboriginal Carvings of Port Jackson and Broken Bay, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Ethnological Series No. 1 (1899), Broken Bay Plate 12, fig. 2; F. D. McCarthy, Catalogue of Rock Engravings in the Sydney-Hawkesbury District, N.S.W. (1983), Broken Bay Group 122","source_display":"W. D. Campbell, Aboriginal Carvings of Port Jackson and Broken Bay, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Ethnological Series No. 1 (1899), Broken Bay Plate 12, fig. 2; F. D. McCarthy, Catalogue of Rock Engravings in the Sydney-Hawkesbury District, N.S.W. (1983), Broken Bay Group 122","date_citation_display":"Campbell 1899 BROKEN BAY pl. XII fig. 2; McCarthy 1983 BROKEN BAY Group 122; Stanbury and Clegg 2000","object_display":"A small pecked oval, or teardrop-shaped, engraved motif on a weathered sandstone platform, sitting immediately beside a group of three nested curved sword-club/non-returning-boomerang figures. The same panel carries a pierced marine animal (a seal, speared) and other curved implement forms. Campbell's 1899 plan draws the oval plainly but gives it no functional caption of its own; the current site record reads it as an oval bullroarer, an unusual motif on this panel.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"rock art depiction","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"ellis trig","display_name":"Ellis Trig oval engraving","image":{"full":"assets/objects/CAMPBELL1899-001_campbell1899_plate12_fig2.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/CAMPBELL1899-001_campbell1899_plate12_fig2_thumb.jpg","credit":"W. D. Campbell, Aboriginal Carvings of Port Jackson and Broken Bay (Geological Survey of New South Wales, 1899), Broken Bay Plate 12, fig. 2","license":"Public domain (1899 government publication)","source_page":"https://hikingtheworld.blog/engravings/ellis-trig-north-cottage-point/","rehosted":false,"representative":false,"caption":"Campbell’s 1899 plan of the Ellis Trig North engravings, with the small oval beside the nested boomerangs."},"slug":"campbell1899-001-ellis-trig-north-cottage-point-ku-ring-gai-chase-national-park-site-id-45"}