Camp Fire Creek Red Stencils

Summary: An Aboriginal rock art site with five red hand stencils, in a tributary of Camp Fire Creek in the lower Blue Mountains.

  • Art type/s: Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
  • Motif/s: Hand
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good, Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1981

Along a tributary of Camp Fire Creek is a tall and rounded shelter, which contains a number of Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre.

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There are at least five hand stencils in close proximity, including a hand and forearm.

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Some of the stencils are very faded; the image pairs below show the stencils with and without image enhancement.

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