Bob and myself had a very interesting walk on the ridge north of Mt Irvine visiting three Aboriginal sites. Two were caves with ochre art, and the third was a well known site on the Tessellated Pavement.
The first site we visited was a small overhang. It did not seem a very good cave to look for art in, but it surprisingly was quite reasonable.
Bob found these stone tools in the drip line. The rocks had worked edges.
In the main wall of the cave was this orange motif depicting a figure.
Here is closer view –
I then used the iDStretch app on my phone to take photos in the cave. This revealed another layer of art.
The figure motif is not very clear, but you can see a number of hand stencils. I think there are at least five hand stencils.
A slightly lower photo –
There is an additional lower hand stencil.
Looking at another part of the cave –
It shows one very clear hand stencil and perhaps two other on the lower left.
And another part of the cave –
It shows at least one more stencil on the right.
There seems to be two more stencils at middle height on the right side.
Perhaps three more stencils?
We then left that cave and walked further along the range.
We soon arrived at the Tessellated Pavement –
Here are some sharpening grooves –
And an engraving of a female figure –
Nearby there seemed to be some mundoes (footprint engravings) –
And looking around the large platform, we found more sharpening grooves –
Another sharpening groove –
The platform offers great views Bowens Creek Gorge –
And Wollangambe Gorge –
This engraving was harder to find –
There are two circular shapes, one inside the other.
Two more sharpening grooves –
The next site we visited was further out along the range. It was mostly pleasant walking.
More views of Bowens Creek.
We arrived at the set cave. We could see three white ochre hand stencils and what could be an axe stencil –
Looking carefully at the rest of the cave, with the aid of the software, revealed some more stencils –
We then began the walk back to Mt Irvine. It had been a very interesting day.
