Red Hand Stencil Shelter

Summary: A small and shallow shelter in the lower Blue Mountains whch contains about 15 red ochre hand stencils. Nearby is a small pool with grinding grooves.

  • Site type: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 15
  • Number of AGGs: 8
  • Motif/s: Hand
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1958

This small shelter in the lower Blue Mountains contains a number of red hand stencils.

1X3A7597 Red Hand Stencil Shelter

There are at least fifteen full hand stencils across one smooth panel at the rear of the shelter, and a couple of partial stencils.

1X3A7583 Red Hand Stencil Shelter

A number of the stencils appear to be children’s hands.

1X3A7586 Red Hand Stencil Shelter
1X3A7586 yre Red Hand Stencil Shelter
1X3A7589 Red Hand Stencil Shelter
1X3A7589 yre Red Hand Stencil Shelter
1X3A7590 Red Hand Stencil Shelter
1X3A7590 yre Red Hand Stencil Shelter
1X3A7593 Red Hand Stencil Shelter
1X3A7593 yre Red Hand Stencil Shelter
1X3A7595 Red Hand Stencil Shelter
1X3A7595 yre Red Hand Stencil Shelter

Near the shelter is small pool along a perennial creek, which has a number of shallow axe grinding grooves.

1X3A7616 Red Hand Stencil Shelter
1X3A7601 Red Hand Stencil Shelter

Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to Hiking the World, and receive notifications of new posts by email. (A hike is added every 1-2 weeks, on average.)

Join 748 other subscribers

0 Comments

Leave a Reply

Avatar placeholder

Aboriginal Sites by National Park

Aboriginal Rock Art – Lane Cove
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.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Maroota and Marramarra NP
Located to the north-west of Sydney, just south of the Dharug and Yengo National Parks, Maroota has a high concentration of (known) Aboriginal sites. Many more Aboriginal heritage sites are located in the Marramarra National Park. The original inhabitants of the area were the Darug people.
Photographing Aboriginal rock art
A review of different techniques for photographing Aboriginal rock art. This includdes oblique flash, chain and planar mosaic imaging which combines hundreds of overlapping photos.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Hornsby Shire
Hornsby Shire - which is the largest LGA in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan region - contains approximately 600 recorded Aboriginal rock art sites (and over 1,200 Aboriginal heritage sites). These date back from thousands of years to post-European contact art.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Yengo 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.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Blue Mountains National Park
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.