Murrays Run Bandicoot Shelter

Summary: A shelter with Aboriginal rock art above Murrays Run, which contains charcoal and red ochre figures.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 6
  • Motif/s: Goanna, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1967
  • M. Koettig and P. J. Hughes, “An Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Hungry Creek Rural/Residential Subdivision, Upper Wollombi Brook, NSW” (1983)

Near the top of a steep ridge above Murrays Run is a low shelter, which contains a number of Aboriginal drawings in charcoal.

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One panel consists of three charcoal figures, three of which are outlined in white ochre. There is a macropod figure (described as a bandicoot) which overlaps with what may be a goanna.

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Nearby is a third charcoal drawing, which may be a wombat.

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A fourth figure, which has been scratched or engraved, rather than painted, is much harder to make out.

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Also very hard to see are a number of indeterminate red ochre figures.

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