Over a hundred Aboriginal sites have been recorded in the Hornsby region, with many of these in the Berowra Valley National Park and around the suburb of Berowra. The sites include engravings on sandstone ridges, rock shelters with cave paintings, open campsites and grinding grooves. The Aboriginal occupation of the Berowra Valley is thought to have been predominantly in the last 6,000 years (until European colonisation pushed them out), as the valley was deeper and steeper prior to the last ice age.
Small overhang in Berowra Heights, with charcoal motifs including a snake.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1983
Eleven red ochre hand stencils in a rock shelter near Alan Road (partially destroyed in 1985)
- Number of motifs: 11
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Partially Destroyed
- Year first recorded: 1985
A significant Aboriginal engraving site, which has a group of figures engraved on a small rock platform near the walking track.
- Number of motifs: 9
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1989
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
Barnetts Shelter (SWA) has a small number of charcoal motifs in a sandstone overhang in Berowra Valley National Park.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2021
An unusual Aboriginal engraving site on a vertical rock surface, which includes a Baiame and Daramulan figure.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1895
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, Stanbury and Clegg, Jo McDonald
- View site sketch
A very weathered Aboriginal engraving of an eel (and axe grinding grooves) above a waterfall near the Berkeley Trail
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1975
Wide and deep shelter above Berowra Creek, which has an Aboriginal hand stencil and charcoal drawings.
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2021
A long rock shelter near Franks Gully in the Berowra Valley National Park contains a number of cave paintings, and a shield engraved above the cave
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good, Graffiti damage
- Year first recorded: 1984
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- View site sketch
Behind a row of houses is a large rock platform with a small number of engravings including fish and a kangaroo.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Partially Destroyed
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- View site sketch
The Currawong Road site features a six-metre high, circumcised Daramulum figure, who is holding an axe.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1944
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
Faint Aboriginal charcoal drawings, in a small shelter near the industrial area of Mt Ku-ring-gai
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2021
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
The Joalah Firetrail Aboriginal engraving is a small carving of what may be a man, woman or anthropomorph.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Condition of art: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1982
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal rock art site above Joe Crafts Creek, with a single charcoal drawing.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2021
A single red hand stencil above Joe Crafts Creek, in a wide but shallow shelter.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2021
Aboriginal engraving of an indeterminate object, near the Mitchell Fire Trail
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1995