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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