Many of the surviving Aboriginal rock art and occupation sites that have been recorded in the Hornsby Shire are located within Berowra Valley National Park – the area having been occupied by the ‘Benowie Aboriginal tribe’. 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.
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
An oval-shaped Aboriginal rock engraving near the Callicoma Trail in Cherrybrook.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1979
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
A single Aboriginal hand stencil in red ochre near the Callicoma Trail in Cherrybrook.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2024
Seven faded Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre, in a shallow rock shelter above the Callicoma Trail in Cherrybrook.
- Number of motifs: 7
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1979
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
Aboriginal rock art site with very weathered charcoal figures below Crosslands Road.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1979
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
An Aboriginal engraving site along Berowra Creek, which includes a complex figure with three superimosed motifs.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1990
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- View site sketch
A small Aboriginal shelter with art along Berowra Creek, which has figures in charcoal and red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1990
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
An Aboriginal engraving site on a boulder along Berowra Creek; two fish are very distinct, and another seven figures have weathered away.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1961
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- 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
An Aboriginal engraving of an eel and several grinding grooves on a rock platform next to the Hawkesbury Track in Berowra.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1983
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
An Aboriginal rock art site with a small wallaby drawn in red ochre, near the Hawkesbury Track in Berowra
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1983
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Jo McDonald
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