Maitland Drive Charcoal Shelter

Summary: A deep shelter at the base of a tall cliff-line near Maitland Bay Drive with multiple charcoal motifs and two hand stencils.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 8
  • Motif/s: Anthropomorph, Hand, Indeterminate figure
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good, Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1980
  • Originally Recorded by: Stanbury and Clegg

A large shelter at the base of a tall cliff-line near Maitland Drive on the Central Coast has a number of Aboriginal drawings in charcoal, and two stencils.

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The most distict motifs are on a small panel which has at least five figures.

IMG 1830 LR Maitland Drive Charcoal Shelter

They include a lizard/goanna and multiple indeterminate charcoal figures (one if them may be a human figure or anthropomorph).

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IMG 1829 LR Maitland Drive Charcoal Shelter

The panel may have remnants of red ochre art, but is more likely to be natural pigmentation of the rock.

IMG 1830 LR yrd Maitland Drive Charcoal Shelter

Another panel has stylised human figure or anthropomorph, with upstretched arms; another human/anthropomorph figure is superimposed.

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Two faint hand stencils in white ochre are next to each other.

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