Summary: Shelter below Koolewong Ridge, which has Aboriginal charcoal art (indeterminate motifs) and a midden.

Despite having a fairly weathered and wind-blasted interior, this shelter below the Koolewong Ridge contains charcoal Aboriginal art on some of the smoother sections of sandstone on the ceiling.

The figures were described by W.D. Campbell: “The group is composed of fish, with a squid in the centre”. Many of the charcoal motifs can no longer be seen.

Depite being over a hundred metres above the water, the shelter also contains a midden, with a dense layer of shells at one end of the cave.

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Aboriginal Sites by National Park

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.
Over 40 sites have been recorded within the park; many were located along the river bank and were flooded by the building of the weir in 1938.