Summary: A shallow rock shelter above Murrays Run which has Aboriginal rock art, including multiple panels with wallabies or kangaroos.

One of several shelters with Aboriginal rock art along a low cliff-line above Murrays Run, this shallow overhang contains multiple panels of art.

The largest and most complex panel contains multiples wallabies/kangaroos, including one that has been drawn or scratched in white.

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At the northern end of this main panel, image enhancement shows both the white/scratched figure, and some indeterminate red ochre motifs.

On a separate panel is an infilled echidna.

Another panel has three partial wallabies or kangaroos – “of an outline form almost as if someone was sketching to practice that representation”.

The last, small panel has an infilled wallaby/kangaroo.

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