Summary: A small charcoal frieze with three men in a small and low shelter above the eastern arm of South West Arm Creek.
Site type: Cave Painting
Number of motifs: 4
Motif/s: Man
Quality: 2/5
Condition of site: Weathered
Year first recorded: 1998
Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff
A low shelter above the eastern arm of South West Arm Creek contains a small charcoal frieze of Aboriginal art. It has three human figures with upraised arms; one of them is very weathered.
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.
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.
Many sites Aboriginal engraving sites across the inner suburbs of Sydney have been destroyed or are very weatheredl. The sites which remain are isolated from their natural environment.
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.
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