Murrays Run Macropod Panel

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

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 26
  • Motif/s: Echidna, Kangaroo
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1983
  • Originally Recorded by: Margrit Koettig

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

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

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HC11 sketch Murrays Run Macropod Panel

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

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On a separate panel is an infilled echidna.

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1X3A0386 LR lbk Murrays Run Macropod Panel
HC11 sketch echidna Murrays Run Macropod Panel

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

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HC11 sketch roos Murrays Run Macropod Panel

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

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1X3A0397 LR lbk Murrays Run Macropod Panel
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