Murrays Run Five White Females

Summary: A large overhang at the head of a gully in Murrays Run; it was documented at having five white female figures (which can no longer be seen)

  • Site type: Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 8
  • Number of AGGs: 1
  • Motif/s: Indeterminate figure, Woman
  • Quality: 1.5/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1983
  • Originally Recorded by: Margrit Koettig

An enormous shelter at the head of a creek above Murrays Run, which contains Aboriginal rock art – and possibly a single axe grinding groove on a boulder just below the overhang.

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An archeological survey by Koettig and Hughes in the early 1980s documented “five white female forms” which were “beginning to fade but still discernable”. These could not be located.

HC09 sketch Murrays Run Five White Females

Another panel has several indeterminate charcoal motifs, as well as some graffiti.

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