Mount Colah Scouts Cave

Summary: Weathered Aboriginal cave art in red ochre, in a shelter near Lyrebird Gully in Mount Colah

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Indeterminate figure
  • Quality: 1.5/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 2023

Located along a cliff-line in Mount Colah near Lyrebird Gully, this shelter has been visited by the occasional bushwalker and Scouting groups for many decades.

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I’ve called it the Scouting Cave, as the floor of the shelter includes the Scouting emblem.

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There’s some faint Aboriginal rock art, with at least one figure in red ochre.

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The shelter also has what is likely to be a naturally-formed set of concentric arcs, and a small pit.

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