Burns Bay Road Shelter with Art

Summary: An Aboriginal rock art shelter near Burns Bay Road which has very weathered hand stencils and charcoal drawings.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 8
  • Motif/s: Hand, Indeterminate figure
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of site: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1979
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff

Hidden in plain sight, an overhang near Burns Bay Road – first documented by Warren in the 1980s – contains a number of Aboriginal stencils and charcoal art. All of the art is very weathered and some of the figures have been damaged by water seepage.

The wall of the shelter has at least four hand stencils in white ochre.

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Nearby are some indeterminate charcoal figures.

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More charcoal figures are on a another panel along the wall of the long shelter.

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