New Yard Creek Lines and Dots Shelter

Summary: An intiguing Aboriginal rock art site; this shelter along New Yard Creek has multiple parallel lines and a cluster of dots, as well as many hand stencils.

  • Art type/s: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 30
  • Motif/s: Hand, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Lines
  • Quality: 4.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2019

A small but deep south-facing shelter along New Yard Creek contains some interesting Aboriginal rock art.

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The motifs include white ochre daubs and parallel lines, as well as numerous hand stencils.

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The most unusual arrangement is the vertical lines with white “dots”; this panel also a red ochre drawing of what may be an animal.

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An adjacent panel contains an image of a kangaroo in red ochre, which is not easily seen without image enhancement.

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This panel also has two faint figures in red ochre.

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Another panel containing mostly hand stencils has a small figure in red ochre.

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There are a number of hand stencils across the back wall of the shelter.

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