Finchley Hand Stencil Shelter

Summary: Three Aboriginal hand stencils (two of them quite weathered) in a shelter below Finchley Campground in Yengo National Park.

  • Site type: Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Hand
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good, Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 2024

Near Finchley Campground is a small shelter which probably had a lot of Aboriginal rock art; natural weathering would have more removed most of what was there.

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All that can be seen now is one prominent hand stencil…

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…and two very faint hand stencils.

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Superimposed on the hand stencils is another indeterminate figure.

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