In a row, on the east-west ridge of the Satpahar massif are these three unparalleled rock art sites set amidst lush forests of pristine saal, set on huge, vertical walls of sandstone, so perfect in their setting that they seem for all the world as if they were erected for this express purpose ! The first is Satpahar-I, (6 x 12 ), which is in the southern end and on a high clear sandstone wall towering over its own huge sandstone foundation in a vast stone expanse measuring six by twelve feet presents us with the only examples of deer with bandaged feet which according to Erwin Neumayer is a sign the art was painted during an ice age ( l0,000 BC) and also having a bison with X-ray, and deer painted in the almost identical style as in the Likhanya rock art of the Kaimur range of Mirzapur.

Slightly removed and on the west facing slope of the hill, we find Satpahar-II (3.6' x 14') in its wide berth of sandstone, sitting sheltered for aeons from wind and rain, and the sweeping dust-storms of the summer through the valley, sheltered by the thick saal foliage. Here we find a hunter's paradise: a string of animals from right to left a pair of huge humped bison or gaur, a pair of nilgai or bluebull, a type of Indian antelope; a pair of tigers, the male behind accompanied by three wild boar; then a langur monkey facing a pair of hunters with bows and arrows, one hunter shown in its stomach (!); a wild buffalo, and a horned rhinoceros, with some more figures of x-ray animals.

Satpahar-III ( 7' x 10')is famed for possessing perhaps the oldest crucifix form (Great One) set over a double line of racing spotted deer.