White Hands Cave (Camp Fire Creek)

Summary: An isolated sandstone boulder with (at least) three Aboriginal hand stencils and charcoal art.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 4
  • Motif/s: Hand, Kangaroo
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1958
  • Originally Recorded by: Eugene Stockton

An isolated boulder in the lower Blue Mountains, the White Hands Cave contains Aboriginal rock art. The fairly distinctive shelter faces north-east.

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On a wall inside the smooth sandstone wall is a pair of hand stencils in white ochre.

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Near these is another, single white stencil.

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There is a charcoal figure of what may be a wallaby or kangaroo.

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