Bald Trig Red Hand Stencil

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

  • Site type: Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Hand
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good

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

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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.

AWAT8807 LR Bald Trig Red Hand Stencil

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

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