Summary: The Warrimoo Track Shelter is a long cave with a dozen hand stencils along the back wall, and a large midden below the cave.
Art type/s: Stencil - Hand
Number of motifs: 12
Motif/s: Hand
Quality: 4/5
Condition of site: Good
Year first recorded: 1986
Originally Recorded by: Jo McDonald
A long but shallow sandstone cave near Bobbin Head has 21 motifs, all of them child and adult white ochre hand stencils located along the back wall. Below the cave is a large midden.
Six of the hand-prints are well-defined, while others are harder to distinguish.
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Josh Bastock
· April 27, 2023 at 10:14 am
Hi, where along the track is this? I’m doing photogrammetry scans of some sites in the area and wanted to include this if possible.
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.
Bordered by Wollemi and Yengo National Park, the Parr State Conservation Area has many indigenous heritge sites, including rock engravings, cave pintings and axe grinding grooves.
There are about 300 recorded Aboriginal heritage sites in Wollemi National Park, with the rugged and remote environment meaning many sites are yet to be "discovered" and recorded.
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.
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.
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Josh Bastock · April 27, 2023 at 10:14 am
Hi, where along the track is this? I’m doing photogrammetry scans of some sites in the area and wanted to include this if possible.