Boree Track Fractured Frieze Shelter

Summary: An Aboriginal rock art shelter with multiple panels containing figures drawn in charcoal art, which are the remnants of a large frieze.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 19
  • Motif/s: Indeterminate figure, Man
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good, Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1988
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff

Situated in a very shallow but protected overhang along a cliff-line near the Boree Track, several panels of Aboriginal rock art are likely to have formed part of an enormous frieze.

1X3A9607 LR Boree Track Fractured Frieze Shelter

Despite the weathering and fragmentation of the sandstone, many of the figures are still identifiable as human figures.

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