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.
Aboriginal rock art including charcoal drawings and red ochre hand stencils in a long shelter below the old Pacific Highway
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good, Graffiti damage
- Year first recorded: 2021
Grooved water channel and axe grinding grooves on a rock platform near the Pogson Trig Firetrail.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2021
A signposted site next to Quarter Sessions Road has an Aboriginal engraving depicting a pair of leaping kangaroos.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Partially Destroyed, Re-located
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Jo McDonald, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
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One of the most spectacular Aboriginal rock art sites in Sydney's north, with red ochre and charcoal drawings across two adjacent shelters.
- Number of motifs: 20
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2021
Very weathered site with an unusual feathered emu, as well as multiple kangaroos and axe grinding grooves
- Number of motifs: 15
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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Washtub Gully near Berowra Waters has a number of Aboriginal engravings in a creek bed
- Number of motifs: 26
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1944
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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Ochre drawings of fish in a shelter below Washtub Gully, near Berowra Waters
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Graffiti damage
- Year first recorded: 1989
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