Along a long but low cliff-line above Murrays Run, this sandstone outcrop has multiple shelters formed by cavernous weathering; the uppermost cavity contains Aboriginal rock art.
All of the seven charcoal figures are on one relatively small panel within the shelter.
A report by Koettig and Hughes in 1983 documented all the figures as being anthropomorphs, which appears incorrect.
The most intriguing motif is a human figure with a ball and chain, which would date the art to between 1826 and 1834 when the convict-built Great North Road was constructed.
Most of the other charcoal motifs are also human figures, many with upstretched arms; one of them appears to have been speared.
Below the shelter is a single axe grinding groove.
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