Peats Ridge Road Stencil Shelter

Summary: A small shelter with remains of a timbergetters' camp, which has over ten Aboriginal hand and arm stencils.

  • Site type: Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 16
  • Motif/s: Arm, Hand
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Condition of site: Fire damage
  • Year first recorded: 1965
  • Originally Recorded by: Bob Pankhurst

A small shelter below Peats Ridge Road with Aboriginal rock art; Bob Pankhurst suggested that old cooking implements and a small fireplace (as well as a small stone wall) are the remains of a camp used by timbergetters who logged the area many decades ago.

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There are over a dozen stencils of hands and a forearm.

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