Summary: A shallow Aboriginal Shelter with Art below Flat Rocks Ridge which has over twenty drawings and stencils in red ochre.

A small and fairly shallow overhang in a gully below Flat Rocks Ridge, which contains some interesting Aboriginal rock art.

On the wall of the shelter is a large and crudely drawn wallaby or kangaroo (which could also be a horse), a woman with upstretched arms and numerous hand stencils.

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A smaller red ochre figure to the left of these could be an echidna or a bird.

Next to a very clear hand stencil is another red ochre figure, which may be a small human figure.

It’s unclear what animal this depicts – possibly a wallaby.

Several of the red ochre figures are very weathered.

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