Murrays Run Stencil Shelter

Summary: A ridge-top shelter above Murrays Run Road, which has at least 20 motifs inluding stencils of hands and a boomerang, and red ochre figures.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
  • Number of motifs: 20
  • Motif/s: Arm, Hand, Man
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Year first recorded: 1994
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff

This Aboriginal rock art site is in a long and fairly low shelter just below a ridge in the Lower Hunter Valley, accessed via a short but slightly precarious scramble from the northern side.

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A panel containing multiple white stencils is the most prominent art: there is a boomerang and five hand stencils.

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Overlapping the stencils on the same panel and very hard to see without image enhancement is a series of white human figures.

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Another panel with four white hand stencils also has what appears to be an animal figure in red ochre.

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1X3A4671 LR yre Murrays Run Stencil Shelter

A smaller panel of smooth rock contains a partial hand stencil.

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A stencil of a forearm and hand also has a red ochre figure, of a snake or eel-like figure.

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1X3A4675 LR yre Murrays Run Stencil Shelter

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