Bucketty Red Ochre Figures

Summary: A deep shelter near Bucketty with Aboriginal rock art in red ochre and charcoal.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 8
  • Motif/s: Indeterminate figure, Man
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of site: Graffiti damage
  • Year first recorded: 1970

This large shelter below Walkers Ridge Road in Bucketty contains Aboriginal rock art – and considerable graffiti, some of it fairly recent.

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Graffiti covers what appears to be remnant red ochre figures.

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There are a number of indeterminate red ochre motifs scattered around the walls of the shelter.

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IMG 9252 LR yrd Bucketty Red Ochre Figures
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IMG 9257 LR yre Bucketty Red Ochre Figures
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IMG 9259 LR yre Bucketty Red Ochre Figures
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IMG 9267 LR yre Bucketty Red Ochre Figures

A small charcoal figure was described by Bob Pankhurst as a man when he docmented this shelter in the 1970s.

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A positive hand stencil may be European; it was not documented by Pankhurst.

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IMG 9264 LR yre Bucketty Red Ochre Figures
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