Summary: A deep shelter at the base of a tall cliff-line near Maitland Bay Drive with multiple charcoal motifs and two hand stencils.

A large shelter at the base of a tall cliff-line near Maitland Drive on the Central Coast has a number of Aboriginal drawings in charcoal, and two stencils.

The most distict motifs are on a small panel which has at least five figures.

They include a lizard/goanna and multiple indeterminate charcoal figures (one if them may be a human figure or anthropomorph).

The panel may have remnants of red ochre art, but is more likely to be natural pigmentation of the rock.

Another panel has stylised human figure or anthropomorph, with upstretched arms; another human/anthropomorph figure is superimposed.

Two faint hand stencils in white ochre are next to each other.

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