Springwood Ridge Red Hand Stencils

Summary: A shelter near Springwood Ridge with at least five weathered Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre .

A small and fairly nondescript shelter in a gully off the Springwood Ridge, this Aboriginal rock art site was documented by Eugene Stockton as being part of “an important site complex”.

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The shelter has at least five hand stencils in red ochre, although they are all quite faded, and hard to see without image enhancement. While the site is relatively undisturbed, there is a single word graffitied on the wall.

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One of the hand stencils has a complete arm.

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