Berowra Creek Eel Cave

Summary: Wide and deep shelter above Berowra Creek, which has an Aboriginal hand stencil and charcoal drawings.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
  • Motif/s: Eel, Indeterminate figure
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2021

Near the head of semi-permanent creek is a wide and long shelter with a single Aboriginal hand stencil and multiple charcoal drawings.

AWAT5545 LR Berowra Creek Eel Cave

The shelter has a single white handprint stencil.

AWAT5517 LR Berowra Creek Eel Cave

The most obvious charcoal art motif represents an eel.

AWAT5518 LR Berowra Creek Eel Cave

There are additional figures along the wall and ceiling of the shelter: I can’t determine what they represent.

  • AWAT5523 LR Berowra Creek Eel Cave
  • AWAT5534 LR Berowra Creek Eel Cave
  • AWAT5539 LR Berowra Creek Eel Cave

A set of vertical charcoal lines were also observed.

AWAT5516 LR Berowra Creek Eel Cave

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