Little Red Hand Cave / Spring Gully Shelter

Summary: A small shelter with multiple red hand stencils in North Wahroonga

  • Art type/s: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 4
  • Motif/s: Hand
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Condition of art: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1979

Despite being relatively close to suburbia in North Wahroonga, this small sandstone shelter is relatively graffiti-free. It has as a number of red ochre handprints, and some other indeterminate drawings.

  • Red hand stencils at Spring Gully (Cockle Creek) Shelter
  • AWAT7611 LR Little Red Hand Cave / Spring Gully Shelter
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