Bala Range Small Charcoal Panel

Summary: A small and shallow shelter with Aboriginal rock art below a ridge off the Bala Range Trail.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 6
  • Motif/s: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2016
  • Originally Recorded by: C. Douchkov
  • Ian Sim, Report to AIAS on engravings in Sydney district; MacDonald River Site 9

A somewhat unlikely site for Aboriginal rock art, this small and shallow shelter is located halfway down a steep ridge off the Bala Range Trail.

1X3A0120 LR Bala Range Small Charcoal Panel

The small charcoal figures include a kangaroo and two human figures, one of them holding a long object.

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1X3A0118 LR lbk Bala Range Small Charcoal Panel
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