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.

1X3A7248 LR Finchley Hand Stencil Shelter

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

1X3A7242 LR Finchley Hand Stencil Shelter

…and two very faint hand stencils.

1X3A7244 LR Finchley Hand Stencil Shelter

Superimposed on the hand stencils is another indeterminate figure.

1X3A7244 LR lbk Finchley Hand Stencil Shelter
Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to Hiking the World, and receive notifications of new posts by email. (A hike is added every 1-2 weeks, on average.)

Join 667 other subscribers

0 Comments

Leave a Reply

Aboriginal Sites by National Park

Aboriginal Rock Art – Hornsby Shire
Hornsby Shire - which is the largest LGA in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan region - contains approximately 600 recorded Aboriginal rock art sites (and over 1,200 Aboriginal heritage sites). These date back from thousands of years to post-European contact art.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Lane Cove
Over 40 sites have been recorded within the park; many were located along the river bank and were flooded by the building of the weir in 1938.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Maroota and Marramarra NP
Located to the north-west of Sydney, just south of the Dharug and Yengo National Parks, Maroota has a high concentration of (known) Aboriginal sites. Many more Aboriginal heritage sites are located in the Marramarra National Park. The original inhabitants of the area were the Darug people.
Photographing Aboriginal rock art
A review of different techniques for photographing Aboriginal rock art. This includdes oblique flash, chain and planar mosaic imaging which combines hundreds of overlapping photos.