Summary: A shelter in the Devils Wilderness below Wilderness Ridge, which has Aboriginal rock art and axe grinding grooves.

This long sandstone shelter below Wilderness Ridge contains a number of Aboriginal rock art motifs on the back wall and ceiling.

The most interesting motifs are two adjacent figures in charcoal, one resembling a bird and the other a lizard.

Another interesting charcoal figure may be an anthropomorph or two superimposed motifs.

There are several more indeterminate figures on the back wall of the shelter.

While almost all the art is in charcoal, there is one motif in white ochre.

More charcoal motifs are drawn on the ceiling of the shelter,

Below the drip-line of the shelter are three axe grinding grooves.

Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to Hiking the World, and receive notifications of new posts by email. (A hike is added every 1-2 weeks, on average.)

Join 745 other subscribers

0 Comments

Leave a Reply

Avatar placeholder

Aboriginal Sites by National Park

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.
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.
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.
Over 40 sites have been recorded within the park; many were located along the river bank and were flooded by the building of the weir in 1938.