Summary: A long, tunnel-like shelter, Carrolls Cave has over 80 Aboriginal hand stencils, as well as stencils of stone axes and spears. Above the shelter are a mundoe and kangaroo engraving.

This very long and low, tunnel-like Shelter witrh Art along the Boree Track was first recorded by Warren Bluff, and later by Bob Pankhurst.

The shelter has over a hundred motifs, including 86 hand stencils.

Amongst these hand stencils is an unusual triangle pattern.

As well as hand stencils, the shelter has several weapons including two long spears.

There is also a stencil of a stone axe.

While almost all the figures are stencils, there is at least one faint charcoal drawing; Bob Pakhurst described this as a “dog like animal” and postulated that it may be represent a Thylacine.

Above the shelter on a sloping rock platfiorm is a mundoe.

On an adjacent rock platform is an engraving of a kangaroo.

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Aboriginal Sites by National Park

Yengo National Park was an important spiritual and cultural place for the Darkinjung and Wonnarua People for thousands of years, and 640 Aboriginal cultural sites are recorded in the park and nearby areas.
Over 40 sites have been recorded within the park; many were located along the river bank and were flooded by the building of the weir in 1938.