Murrays Run Remnant Art Shelter

Summary: An Aboriginal rock art shelter near Murrays Run with very faint, white lines.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Indeterminate figure
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 2021
  • Originally Recorded by: C. Douchkov

A very low shelter with a sandy floor in the Lower Hunter Valley contains some traces of Aboriginal rock art.

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It’s very hard to make out the white ochre lines, and impossible to determine what they represent.

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