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Highmoor State Forest Painting
Cascade I
Site
Brief description of site: The site faces NNW. The shelter is in a 250m sandstone band with many hollows. The painted section is 20m long, 4m deep and 4m high. The floor is fine sand and cattle dung with many fallen rocks and some bedrock. There are small shrubs and grass in front of the shelter, there is no screen as well as a steep slope to the river. There is some water drip in the summer. The painted surface is very badly weathered with extensive exfoliation. The shelter is used a lot by herdsmen and cattle. There are cattle rubbings on the painted surface.
Brief description of art: The site contains more than 147 paintings: 107 Humans- 32 male, 5 female, 70 indeterminate. 28 animals: 9 eland, 3 rhebuck, 2 hartebeest, 2 felines, 1 baboon/dog, 11 indeterminate. Equipment: 6 quivers and ball, 33 remains.
Cascade II
Site
Brief description of site: The site is a large overhang in a krans with a small damp overhang in the centre. There are trees on the slope in front of the shelter but there is no screening for the site. The overhang is 50m long, 10m deep. The shelter is 13m long, 5m deep and 3m high with a strong water drip.
Cleopatra I
Site
Brief description of site: The site is a South facing shallow overhang that is very weathered. There a dense shrubbery as well as rocks on the left hand side. There is also water drip-stains on the right of the painted surface.
Brief description of art: There are a total of 11 paintings of animal headed and hooved figures. From left to right the panel goes as follows. There is one large figure with a concave face, headdress and carrying a stick with hoof like feet. There is evidence of two or three very faded figures, one with an elaborate headdress. There are also seven figures clad in maroon and black, one of the figures has an eagle head, another has an antelope like head. The rest of the figures have baboon like heads. Where the painting is clear all the figures are hooved. The last figure is steatopygic, hooved and has an animal head. This figure like the others is carrying a stick and is also in maroon and black. Below this panel to the left are three faded indeterminate paintings. Above and below the right side of the panel are small groups of paint remains.
Silver Hill I
Site
Brief description of site: The site is S facing and is below a large sandstone boulder. It is screened in front by a large patch of trees and can only be seen from the upper slopes. The site is about 20m long, 6m deep and the roof slopes from 5m to the ground at the back. The floor is divided in two sections by a dry stream course (winter time). The left side has soil with mixed grasses and slopes to the front and right of site. The right floor is sandy with some small rocks and is flat. Evidence of overflow was over the left section of the site.
Brief description of art: The paintings have not been recorded due to poor condition.