Mt Ku-ring-gai Track Lords Bay Shelter

Summary: A long shelter above the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track, which has several Aboriginal hand stencils and a kangaroo drawn in charcoal.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 4
  • Motif/s: Hand, Kangaroo
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1983

A long shelter above the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track, which contains faded Aboriginal rock art in what may also have been a habitation shelter.

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Eight hand stencils were recorded here; only three can still be seen.

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At the opposite end of the shelter is a wallaby or kangaroo drawn in charcoal.

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