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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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