Summary: Weathered Aboriginal rock art in a shelter at the base of a low cliff in the lower Blue Mountains. It's not clear what the charcoal motifs represent.

This tall shelter along a low cliffline in a gully in the lower Blue Mountains contains traces of Aboriginal rock art.

Most of the charcoal motifs are of indeterminate figures. The most distinct may be a wallaby or kangaroo; above it are two more faint figures.

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Another charcoal figure is fairly obvious – but what it represents is not clear.

There are a few more charcoal figures that may be natural.

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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.