Callicoma Trail Red Hand Stencils

Summary: Seven faded Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre, in a shallow rock shelter above the Callicoma Trail in Cherrybrook.

  • Site type: Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 7
  • Motif/s: Hand
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1979
  • Originally Recorded by: R Taplin

Described as “one of the best caves in the area” in by R Taplin, the Aboriginal stencils in this shelter are now very weathered.

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A total of seven “clear” hand stencils were recorded in the 1970s; they are still visible but some need image enhancement to see them.

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1X3A2981 LR yre Callicoma Trail Red Hand Stencils

There is no evidence of a boomerang stencil, which was already described as “faded” when this site was first recorded.

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