Great Mackerel SWA 2

Summary: Great Mackerel Shelter with Art (SWA) 2 has fifteen hand stencils in red ochre, on a cliff above Great Mackerel Beach

  • Art type/s: Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 15
  • Motif/s: Hand
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of art: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1986
  • Originally Recorded by: Jo McDonald

Along a series of enormous overhangs are fifteen Aboriginal hand stencils, in two groups.

AWAT5739 LR Great Mackerel SWA 2

Ten handprints are located at one end of a large overhang, on a smooth section of sandstone.

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