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

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

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.

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

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

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

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