Kiddle Top Shelter with Art

Summary: A low shelter with Aboriginal rock art mostly in charcoal, with some red ochre. The figures include a wombat or kangaroo, snake and fish.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 16
  • Motif/s: Bird Track, Kangaroo, Man, Snake, Wombat
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Condition of site: Good, Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1998
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff

A low shelter along a low cliff-line, which has a number of Aboriginal drawings in charcoal.

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The motifs include a fish on the ceiling of the shelter, and an indeterminate also in charcoal near it.

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On the back wall is what appears to be the outline of wombat or kangaroo.

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A long, sinuous figure may be a snake.

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Some more indeterminate motifs may have been larger figures, which have been weathered.

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Behind more weathered charcoal figures is a red ochre motif.

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Behind a human figure is a fish drawn vertically in red ochre.

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This charcoal figure is also indeterminate, but may represent another animal.

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There are also three birsd tracks; the third one is very indistinct or weathered.

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