Summary: A very small and low shelter with a single Aboriginal red ochre hand stencil.

Just outside the Gardens of Stone State Conservation Area is a low shelter, which has a single Aboriginal hand stencil in red ochre.

It’s the only stencil (or the only one remaining) along a thin strip of rock, which has multiple patches of red ochre.

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It’s an unusual rock art site, in that the shelter is very low and has very few surfaces suitable for art or stencils.

A nearby site has faint figures and lines in white and red.

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