This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Along the 248 Track is a long rock shelf protected by a series of timber logs; it’s hard to make out the individual engravings due to natural tesselation.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1976
At the end of the 248 Track is a large rock outcrop, which has some faint engravings and what may be a stone arrangement.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement, Stone circle
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Bird
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1992
Small overhang in Berowra Heights, with charcoal motifs including a snake.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Lines, Snake
- Year first recorded: 1983
Eleven red ochre hand stencils in a rock shelter near Alan Road (partially destroyed in 1985)
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1985
An intriguing Aboriginal engraving site near Alison's Cascades, which has two birds, a shark and a long line of mundoes.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 26
- Motifs: Bird, Mundoe (foot), Shark
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1971
A significant Aboriginal engraving site, which has a group of figures engraved on a small rock platform near the walking track.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1989
Carved about 3000 to 4000 years ago, Apana Gård 2A features a human figure connected to a reindeer and a large boat-figure.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Man, Reindeer
- Year first recorded: 1973
Bergbukten is one the largest panels in the Hjemmeluft site at Alta, with over 300 motifs depicting different scenes.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 310
- Motifs: Axe, Bear, Bear track, Bird, Dog/Wolf, Elk, Fence, Fish, Man, Mundoe (foot), Rabbit, Reindeer, Sailing Ship, Seal, Spear, Whale
- Year first recorded: 1973
- View site sketch
Bergbukten 3A has 55 figures, depicting a number of boats (as well as elk and reindeer).
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 55
- Motifs: Elk, Reindeer, Sailing Ship
- Year first recorded: 1973
- View site sketch
One of the largest panels with Stone Age rock art in northern Europe. Bergbukten 4B has over 140 figures and depicts multiple hunting scenes.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 144
- Motifs: Elk, Fish, Man, Reindeer
- Year first recorded: 1973
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A small panel in the Hjemmeluft site, Ole Pedersen 8A mainly features reindeer, bears and bear tracks.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 65
- Motifs: Elk, Man, Reindeer, Woman
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A ritual Aboriginal site near the America Bay Track, which features a large Daramulan (ancestral hero)
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 31
- Motifs: Club, Daramulan, Fish, Goanna, Mundoe (foot), Stingray
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Four interrelated sites around the America Bay track at West Head, depicting different scenes. Two are easily accessed from the America Bay Track.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 57
- Motifs: Bird Track, Club, Daramulan, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
An Aboriginal engraving site below the America Bay Track, which may represent a fishing scene.
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Basket, Fish, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
- View site sketch
An unusual engraving depicting a man striking a wallaby, on a small platform above a waterfall
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man, Shield, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
- View site sketch
A giant kangaroo and mundoe (and nearby shield), probably of mythological importance
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot), Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engravings of an eel and boomerang, below the America Bay Track (West Head)
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Boomerang, Eel
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A short detour off the America Bay Track reveals some fascinating Aboriginal rock engravings, including a large whale
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Goanna, Mundoe (foot), Stingray, Whale, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Apple Tree Bay Shelter near Bobbin Head has stencils of two fish and 12 hands one panel, and charcoal drawings on another panel
A series of Aboriginal engraving sites along a ridge of rock extending from the Waratah Track across West Head Road,
- Quality: 3/5
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 33
- Motifs: Echidna, Fish, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch