Flat Rocks Ridge Charcoal Figures

Summary: A low, long shelter below Flat Rocks Ridge with Aboriginal rock art (mostly charcoal figures) and axe grinding grooves.

  • Site type: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
  • Number of motifs: 36
  • Number of AGGs: 16
  • Motif/s: Club, Hand, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1988
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff

This long Aboriginal rock art shelter below Flat Rocks Ridge has a number of figures, mostly in ccharcoal.

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The main panel has two superimposed macropods in charcoal, and what may be a large eel. A white figure extends from the back wall up to the ceiling.

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Superimosed on the eel is a stencil of a club.

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A faint hand stencil in white ochre also has some indeterminate red ochre lines above it.

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Another charcoal figure also appears to represent a macropod.

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A very low panel at the back of the shelter has a number of lines, and at least one human figure.

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At the north end of the shelter is a cluster of axe grinding grooves.

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