Wilton Clements Creek Stencils

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.

  • Art type/s: Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 6
  • Motif/s: Hand
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of art: Graffiti damage
  • Year first recorded: 1981

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

AWAT8586 LR Wilton Clements Creek Stencils

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

AWAT8589 LR yre Wilton Clements Creek Stencils
AWAT8588 LR Wilton Clements Creek Stencils
AWAT8588 LR yre Wilton Clements Creek Stencils

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

AWAT8598 LR Wilton Clements Creek Stencils

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