Summary: A deep shelter near Bucketty with Aboriginal rock art in red ochre and charcoal.

This large shelter below Walkers Ridge Road in Bucketty contains Aboriginal rock art – and considerable graffiti, some of it fairly recent.

Graffiti covers what appears to be remnant red ochre figures.

IMG 9248 LR Bucketty Red Ochre FiguresIMG 9248 LR yre Bucketty Red Ochre Figures

There are a number of indeterminate red ochre motifs scattered around the walls of the shelter.

A small charcoal figure was described by Bob Pankhurst as a man when he docmented this shelter in the 1970s.

A positive hand stencil may be European; it was not documented by Pankhurst.

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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.