Summary: A shelter with Aboriginal rock art, consisting of faint figures and lines in both white and red ochre.

On the very edge of the Gardens of Stone State Conservation Area is a small, isolated shelter, which has a few faint remants of Aboriginal rock art.

AWAT8789 LR Bald Trig White and Red Lines ShelterAWAT8789 LR yrd Bald Trig White and Red Lines Shelter

The most obvious (but still faint) motif looks has three white lines, which radiate from a single point,

AWAT8785 LR Bald Trig White and Red Lines ShelterAWAT8785 LR ywe Bald Trig White and Red Lines Shelter

Below this are some indeterminate figures, also in white.

AWAT8788 LR Bald Trig White and Red Lines ShelterAWAT8788 LR yrd Bald Trig White and Red Lines Shelter

On a different part of the same rock outcrop is what may be more lines, this time in red ochure and very hard to see.

AWAT8792 LR yrd Bald Trig White and Red Lines Shelter

This shelter is near another one, which has a single red hand stencil.

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Aboriginal Sites by National Park

Located to the north-west of Sydney, just south of the Dharug and Yengo National Parks, Maroota has a high concentration of (known) Aboriginal sites. Many more Aboriginal heritage sites are located in the Marramarra National Park. The original inhabitants of the area were the Darug people.
Hornsby Shire - which is the largest LGA in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan region - contains approximately 600 recorded Aboriginal rock art sites (and over 1,200 Aboriginal heritage sites). These date back from thousands of years to post-European contact art.