Cottage Rock Red Ochre Figures

Summary: Very faded red ochre drawings in a shelter above Cottage Rock at West Head.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Indeterminate figure
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of site: Graffiti damage
  • Year first recorded: 2019

A shallow shelter above Cottage Rock, which contains several faint red ochre figures – and graffiti which appears to be go back to the 1940s, perhaps from when this area was used for military training.

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One of the motifs may depict a human figure.

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The shelter may have been the site of a “Drawing of large shield in red” documented by Fred McCarthy in 1943 and located “on ridge above Cottage Rock”, but there is no evidence of this figure.

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