Dawson Street Stencil Shelter

Summary: A small, low shelter with Aboriginal rock art (stencils and charcoal drawings) near Dawson Street.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motif/s: Hand, Kangaroo
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2020
  • Originally Recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
  • Bob Pankhurst, “Group 30: Cave, Carvings and Sharpening Grooves on the Northern Side of the Old Railway DAms at Somersby” (Unpublished)

A small and low shelter near the Dawson Street Three Men Aboriginal engraving site, which contains stencils and drawings.

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The art consists of two distinct hand stencils, and a couple of much fainter ones, as well as some weathered charcoal drawings.

1X3A9215 Dawson Street Stencil Shelter

To the right of the stencils is a charcoal figure of what appears to be a kangaroo.

1X3A9216 Dawson Street Stencil Shelter
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