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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Aboriginal Sites by National Park

Yengo National Park was an important spiritual and cultural place for the Darkinjung and Wonnarua People for thousands of years, and 640 Aboriginal cultural sites are recorded in the park and nearby areas.
Over 40 sites have been recorded within the park; many were located along the river bank and were flooded by the building of the weir in 1938.
Hornsby Shire - which is the largest LGA in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan region - contains approximately 600 recorded Aboriginal rock art sites (and over 1,200 Aboriginal heritage sites). These date back from thousands of years to post-European contact art.