Bald Trig White and Red Lines Shelter

Summary: A shelter with Aboriginal rock art, consisting of faint figures and lines in both white and red ochre.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 4
  • Motif/s: Indeterminate figure, Lines
  • Condition of site: Weathered

On the very edge of the Gardens of Stone State Conservation Area is a small, isolated shelter, which has a few faint remants of Aboriginal rock art.

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The most obvious (but still faint) motif looks has three white lines, which radiate from a single point,

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Below this are some indeterminate figures, also in white.

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On a different part of the same rock outcrop is what may be more lines, this time in red ochure and very hard to see.

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This shelter is near another one, which has a single red hand stencil.

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