Hunters Hill Red Ochre Drawings

Summary: Containing the most extensive panel of Aboriginal drawings in the Hunters Hill shire, this tall shelter has many red ochre figures.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 15
  • Motif/s: Anthropomorph, Boomerang, Indeterminate figure
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1988
  • Originally Recorded by: Val Attenbrow

Once used as a pig pen in the 1800s, this tall sandstone shelter is the most extensive panel of Aboriginal drawings in the Hunters Hill area.

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It’s hard to determine what the many overlapping red ochre motifs – which cover an area of almost ten metres by two metres – depict.

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The figures seem to include some anthropomorphs and a boomerang, although most are indeterminate.

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