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Mwela West LXIX
Site
Brief description of site: The surface is on a flat clean surface on a rock-face but it is poorly protected. The site is hidden by boulders in the front otherwise it looks into trees. There is no shade or shelter and is easily accessible.
Brief description of art: The art contains 2 large filled animals of uncertain species with fat rounded bodies, stumpy stick legs and a short stick tail. Each animal has had sections eroded away. Where the head of one of the animals would be expected there is a crack within the rock. There are suggestions of a third older large animal under these. On the top of the bottom animal is a smaller filled animal simple but more naturalistic in form also of uncertain species. All animals were applied by a brush in red. At the top of the panel there are a few rows of dots and at the base is a half circle open at its base with a single vertical internal division applied by a finger in red.
Mwela West LXV
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a surface that is protected by overhang in a rock-face set back in a passage leading into the hillside. The site is not visible from the edge of the hill. The site looks into other rocks and has limited shade and no shelter. The site is easily accessible but hard to find.
Brief description of art: The art consists of parallel vertical lines, two circles with single internal vertical divisions and a half circle open at the top. All the images are executed by a finger in red.
Mwela West LXVI
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a rock face 8m further into hill up the same passage way as ZAM-MWW65. The site is small and poorly protected with no shade and no shelter.
Brief description of art: The art consists of a filled circle with external radiating lines overlain by concentric half circles open at base.
Mwela West LXVII
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a large (16m2) smooth surface under an impressive and prominent overhung rock face. The site looks into the Kabali stream area and trees and has pleasantly shaded seating but limited shelter and not suited to habitation. The site is also easily accessible.
Brief description of art: The art consists of 2 circles with externally radiating lines, 1 concentric circle, 8 bat-like or spread-eagled filled designs of which all are slightly different. There are also vertical rows of dots and a circle with a single internal vertical division. Lastly there is a half circle open at the base. All the images were applied by a finger in red. The various styles suggests different artists, and there are no overlays.
Mwela West LXVIII
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a small shelter recessed into the hillside where two rock-faces meet. The site provides pleasant shaded seating, shelter and seclusion but too small for habitation. The site looks into trees and is easily accessible but easy to miss.
Brief description of art: The art consists of 4 filled animal depictions of which 1 clearly depicts the front section of a giraffe and is executed with considerable naturalism. Another image is rather horse-like but the exact species unclear. There is 1 very unique being pregnant within the stomach a baby is depicted. One animal is rather antelope like. Finally there is an animal and it is very strange but could be an insect. All the images are faint and brushed. There is also filled circle with externally radiating lines, a concentric circle over an animal, a circle with 3 internal horizontal divisions, a circle and various dots and short lines later applied by a finger in red.
Mwela West LXX
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a small protected surface on a thin boulder sitting amongst a maze of boulders in the central section of the hill. The site has no view, no shade as well as no shelter. The site is easily accessible but hard to find.
Brief description of art: The art consists of a single filled animal depiction of uncertain species with a small group of dots just below its head.
Mwela West LXXI
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a thin strip of protected rock on a boulder which is protected by a narrow overhang. The site is at the edge of the hill looking into trees. The site has no shade or shelter and is easily accessible.
Brief description of art: The art contains 2 similar faded filled animal depictions almost certainly antelope. Both the images are executed with a considerable degree of naturalism and the body is correct and the proportions with realistic legs and a discernible head. There are also traces of an outline animal higher up that is overlain by many horizontal rows of dots.
Mwela West LXXII
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a well overhung surface on large boulder 10m west of ZAM-MWW73. There are various small rocks next to surface providing pleasant shaded seats but the site has limited shelter. The site looks outwards from the edge of the hill into trees and is easily accessible.
Brief description of art: The art consists of many horizontal rows of dots of which some are partially covered by a black stain. There is a long set of parallel vertical lines, three circles in a vertical row, a star shape and a vertical line. All the images were applied by a finger in red. There are also some smaller brushed rows of dots.
Mwela West LXXIII
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a large (5m2) clean surface that is reasonably well protected by a bulging overhang and is quite well shaded but with no shelter. The site faces out from the edge of the hill into trees and is easily accessible. The surface is pink making the images hard to see.
Brief description of art: The art contains rows of finger sized dots, 4 vertical, 2 horizontal. As well as two bat-like filled motifs and a few vertical lines.
Mwela West LXXIV
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a protected area of rock-face under a tall and impressive overhanging rock 10m southwest of ZAM-MWW73. The overhang provides shade but not shelter. The shelter looks into rocks and trees and is easily accessible.
Brief description of art: The art contains various sets of short lines in groups of two or three and a few dots. All the images were applied by a finger in red.
Mwela West LXXIX
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a large and obvious rock shelter at the west end of the the hill. The rock floor is raised a few metres above ground level. Therefore the shelter catches any breeze. The shelter is shaded and sheltered and would have made an excellent site for habitation. The site looks into the tree tops.
Brief description of art: The site consists of numerous and varied images. There is a fine filled detailed depiction of an antelope (probably an eland as it has dewlap) the head and horns of which are overlain by a filled bat-like depiction also brushed. There are many concentric circles, 2 concentric half circles open at base, an oblong shape with two vertical divisions, another oblong divided internally with horizontal lines, also a very numerous sets of parallel vertical lines. There is also a very large complex design composed of curvilinear joined lines, applied by a finger in red. There are a few concentric circles applied by a finger in yellow. There are two circles with internal dot and externally radiating lines applied by a brush in red.
Mwela West LXXV
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a rather uneven section of rock-face that is protected by a narrow overhang. The site looks outwards from the edge of the hill into trees. There is limited shade but no protection. The site is easily accessible.
Brief description of art: A very unusual brushed red design, the right hand side of which has been washed off. It has three linear protrusions from the top, a thin vertical line which forms its left side and a single point at its base. Sticking out bits all solidly filled, central area filled
with small dots. Accompanied by 3 horizontal rows of dots and a few vertical lines applied by finger in what is now yellow (may originally have been red).