South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery

Summary: An Aboriginal rock art shelter near the South Terraborra Trail which has numerous motifs in charcoal, including a wallaby and kangaroo.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 20
  • Motif/s: Emu, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2019
  • Originally Recorded by: William Moon

This long but unassuming shelter above a small creek near the South Terraborra Trail has a small panel of Aboriginal rock art.

1X3A3316 LR South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery
1X3A3357 LR South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery

There are two recognisable figures; one of them is a small emu.

1X3A3331 LR South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery

The other is a wallaby or kangaroo.

1X3A3339 LR South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery
1X3A3337 LR South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery
1X3A3337 LR lab South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery

Many more figures are indeterminate.

1X3A3320 LR South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery
1X3A3320 LR ybk South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery
1X3A3324 LR South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery
1X3A3324 LR ybk South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery
1X3A3333 LR South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery
1X3A3333 LR ybk South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery
1X3A3341 LR South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery
1X3A3341 LR ybk South Terraborra Charcoal Gallery

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