There are a small number of surviving Aboriginal engraving sites across the inner suburbs of Sydney and around Sydney Harbour – although the sites are now isolated from their natural environment. Fewer sites have survived in Sydney’s south, due to development and erosion from weather and foot traffic.
A large whale engraving on a vertical sandstone rock near Sailors Bay.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good, Graffiti damage
- Year first recorded: 1970
A small charcoal frieze with three men in a small and low shelter above the eastern arm of South West Arm Creek.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1998
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
Undercliffe (or the Earlwood Aboriginal Art Site) is a significant rock art site which has over twenty hand stencils and a midden in a small rock shelter.
- Number of motifs: 26
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1970
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider, Jo McDonald
A small rock platform near Victoria Road Firetrail in Dhawaral National Park with three axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Unknown recording date