Refuge Bay Shelter with Art

Summary: Faint Aboriginal hand stencil, in a shallow shelter on the back of Topham Hill

  • Site type: Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Hand
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 2019
  • Originally Recorded by: C. Douchkov

Above Refuge Bay and on the back of Topham Hill are some high cliffs, at the base of which are a number of shallow but high shelters. One of these contains some faint Aboriginal hand stencils, in red ochre.

AWAT6092 LR Refuge Bay Shelter with Art
AWAT6091 LR Refuge Bay Shelter with Art
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 741 other subscribers

0 Comments

Leave a Reply

Aboriginal Sites by National Park

Aboriginal Rock Art in the Greater Blue Mountains
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.
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.
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 – 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.