Image Gallery: Artefacts from Botany Bay, site BB4

‘No fewer than 250 shell hooks of various sizes ... and partially-finished hooks concentrated within an area only a few metres square as well as equal number of bone spear barbs show that part of the site was clearly devoted to the manufacturing of various artefacts required in fishing’ (Megaw 1979).

Fish Hook NP1059-53A Fish Hook NP1059-53A
Shell Worked for Fish Hook NP1059-59A Shell Worked for Fish Hook NP1059-59A
Fish Hook Blank NP1059-86 Fish Hook Blank NP1059-86
Fish Hook Blank NP1059-78A Fish Hook Blank NP1059-78A
Fish Hook Blank NP1059-60A Fish Hook Blank NP1059-60A
Fish Hook NP1059-42A Fish Hook NP1059-42A
Shell Artefact NP1059-1A Shell Artefact NP1059-1A
Fish Hook fragment NP1059-50A Fish Hook fragment NP1059-50A
Sting-ray Barb NP1059-9A Sting-ray Barb NP1059-9A
Bone Point NP1059-17A Bone Point NP1059-17A
Bone Point NP1059-18A Bone Point NP1059-18A
Bone Impement NP1059-32A Bone Impement NP1059-32A
Bone Implement NP1059-13A Bone Implement NP1059-13A
Fish Hook Blank NP1059-80A Fish Hook Blank NP1059-80A
Fish Hook NP1059-67A Fish Hook NP1059-67A
Fish Hook NP1059-75A Fish Hook NP1059-75A
Stone File NP1059-73A Stone File NP1059-73A
Fish Hook File NP1059-68A Fish Hook File NP1059-68A
Fish Hooki File NP1059-71 Fish Hooki File NP1059-71