Located on a gully below Linden Ridge, Stratton Cave is a tall and impressive overhang contains a number of very distinct Aboriginal rock art drawings. It’s described as containing “a frieze of Aboriginal art in bold charcoal…. there was a four-foot-high goanna, a little man dwarfed between a big kangaroo and an odd-looking creature with a horn in its head” and 2 spoor marks in red.
The name “L Barnett” is written on the wall, dated 1954, or 1959, as well as “AJ [Joe] Stratton”, who originally found this shelter in 1934. Stratton took Fred MCarthy to the site, who photographed and recorded Stratton Cave in 1958.
The shelter has a number of unusual charcoal figures; one panel has a large f-foot goanna, a small human figure and two animal tracks.
There is also a second, smaller and more weathered human figure.
This figure in this panel, while drawn using a typical infill technique, looks somewhat unusual in it’s shape and was described as a koala.
Another panel has three even more unusual figures: a kangaroo, small man and a “queer creature with a long neck, fat body, wings and four feet”. The queer creature is partly outlined in red ochre, and is near a positive hand print.
The ceiling of the shelter also has some charcoal motifs.
Directly under the drip-line of the shelter are some fairly deep grinding grooves.
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