Summary: A rock shelter with Aboriginal hand stencils above Clements Creek. The sandstone wall has extensive graffiti, and many of the stencils are hard to see.

A enormous shelter above Clements Creek has a few Aboriginal stencils in red ochre, near the bottom of the sandstone wall.

Unfortunately the stencils have been extensively damaged by graffiti, and some of them are very faint.

The next shelter to the north has what looks like Aboriginal charcoal art, but the motif are likely to be fake.

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