Camp Fire Creek Charcoal Art

Summary: Weathered Aboriginal rock art in a shelter at the base of a low cliff near Campfire Creek. It's not clear what the charcoal motifs represent.

  • Art type/s: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 4
  • Motif/s: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 2023

This tall shelter along a low cliffline in a gully near Campfire Creek contains traces of Aboriginal rock art.

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Most of the charcoal motifs are of indeterminate figures. The most distinct may be a wallaby or kangaroo; above it are two more faint figures.

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Another charcoal figure is fairly obvious – but what it represents is not clear.

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There are a few more charcoal figures that may be natural.

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