 “Buried with them were two stone hatchets, in good preservation, and also a curious mass of yellow substance, like amber, that burns and emits a fragrant odour.”

By 1862 there were still "a fair number" of aboriginal people living a traditional lifestyle in the vicinity of Bellambi Point, including at a campsite on the northern side of Towrodgi Creek.It was also local knowledge that skeletons had been “found in the sand-hills” and that there was a “black-fellow’s cemetery on the sand banks close to Bellambi Lake.”

Towards the end of January, 1890, a hotel guest from Wollongong was walking about Bellambi Point and came across the upper portion of a human skull protruding from a sand dune.Further investigation revealed most of the large limb-bones, together with portions of the shoulder-bones.