Summary: A complex Aboriginal art shelter in the Mellong Range, which has multiple stencils including hands and a boomerang and human figures in charcoal and white ochre.

Allong the Mellong Range is a low rock shelter, which has a gallery of art including multiple stencils of hands and implements as well as white and charcoal drawings.

There are two hand stencils at the front of the shelter.

Most of the stencils are on the ceiling, which is covered in art.

As well as over 25 hand stencils, there is a stencil of a boomerang and a foot.

The largest motif is not a stencil, but a large starburst; while uncommon in the Sydney area, there are few starburst figures in Colo Heights and Putty area.

One figure is drawn in white ochre.

On the back wall of the shelter is a series of four charcoal figures, which look like human figures with upraised hands and a waist-band.

A fifth, very similar, figure is also drawn in charcoal closer to the front of the shelter.

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