Summary: Two adjacent Aboriginal rock art shelters in Yengo National Park, which have hand stencils as well as figures drawn in charcoal, white and red ochre.

Below Pademelon Road in Yengo National Park are two shelters with Aboriginal art, which face each other. One of them is a large overhang at the base of a long cliff-line, which has stencils and drawings.

There are three partial hand stencils in white ochre on the back wall.

A motif in red ochre – possibly of a wombat (or echidna) – is hard to see without image enhancement.

There are also some lines in white ochre.

There are also some charcoal figures which are hard to see; one of them seems to be of a man.

A small panel on the outside of the shelter has three hand stencils.

Opposite the main shelter is a large, hollowed boulder which contains some charcoal motifs.

The three fairly distinct charcoal figures include a man with upraised hands and a kangaroo.

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Aboriginal Sites by National Park

Yengo National Park was an important spiritual and cultural place for the Darkinjung and Wonnarua People for thousands of years, and 640 Aboriginal cultural sites are recorded in the park and nearby areas.
The Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area protects over 3,000 known Aboriginal heritage sites, and many more which are yet to be recorded. This area includes the Blue Mountains National Park, Gardens of Stone, Wollemi National Park and Yengo National Park.
Over 40 sites have been recorded within the park; many were located along the river bank and were flooded by the building of the weir in 1938.
Red Hands Cave, Glenbrook (Blue Mountains)
The Blue Mountains National Park (and surrounding areas along the Great Western Highway) is thought to have over a thousand indigenous heritage sites, although much of the park has not been comprehensively surveyed. The Aboriginal rock sites in the Blue Mountains include grinding grooves, stensils, drawing and rock carvings.