Within this long but very low shelter above a creekline in the Maroota Historic Site is a complex Aboriginal art assemblage, with over 70 motifs across five panels.
About a third of the figures are stencils, which include some unusual motifs: the panel below has two twig stencils as well as a boomerang, stone axe and a snake.
Another panel also has a boomerang stencil, as well as three drawn snakes and more hand stencils in white ochre.
The same panel has some red ochre motifs and two very faint anthropomorphs.
There are at least three red ochre motifs, all indeterminate.
The two anthropomorphs appear to be Daramulan figures.
Next to the anthropomorphs are three more hand stencils.
On the far left hand side of the shelter is a single hand stencil, charcoal figures and a white figure which appears to be depict a kangaroo.
On the ceiling of the shelter is another stencil, and an indeterminate charcoal motif.
A short distance to the south east is a small cluster of grinding grooves in the creek bed.
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