Summary: A dark overhang near Murrays Run, which contains a painting of a wombat (other charcoal figures no longer visible)

One of three inter-connected sites (the others being the Deflowering Cave) and Murrays Run Stencil Shelter), this somewhat dark and damp shelter contains weathered Aboriginal rock art.

At one end of the shelter is a wombat, with a “cross-hatched lined infill”.

Just below the wombat and are three hand stencils; they are very hard to identify without image enhancement.

A second panel has a large emua large emu, a smaller wombat and a figure of a man drawn in red ochre.

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These figures are all hard to see without image enhancement, which reveals that the figures are well preserved.

An unusual, ghost-like figure is drawn in charcoal.

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