Summary: A shelter below a small cliff line which contains over 50 hand stencils; nearby are grinding grooves and a stone arrangement.

A hollow at the base of a low cliff-line in Bilpin which contains a large amount of hand stencils.

Most of the walls as as well the ceiling are covered by over fifty stencils, almost all in white ochre.

Nearby in an ephemeral watercourse are several grooves, which may be spear grinding grooves.

Below the shelter in the creek bed are a number of grinding grooves.

An adjancent, shallow shelter on the same cliff line has three or four very weathered hand stencils.

Above the shelter is a stone arrangement, which points to the nearby shelter.

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