Duckponds Shelter

Summary: Aboriginal cave paintings including a kangaro, two birds and some indeterrminate charcoal figures in a shelter above Marramarra Creek.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 10
  • Motif/s: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good, Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1996

Near the Duckponds is a large sandstone overhang, or shelter, which contains some Aboriginal charcoal drawings.

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Some of the more identifiable motifs are a kangaroo at the bottom of the sandstone wall.

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There also two small birds.

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There are a number of indeterminate figures – some of them may also be birds, but it’s impossible to tell.

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AWAT8474 LR ybk Duckponds Shelter
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