This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Faint Aboriginal charcoal drawing in a shallow shelter above Middle Harbour.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider, Margrit Koettig
- Year first recorded: 1990
Traversed by the Milyerra Road Fire Trail, a large, tesselated rock platform contains a number of weathered engravings
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 44
- Motifs: Bird, Eel, Emu, Fish, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Multiple rock engraving sites are located along and around the Milyerra Road Fire Trail in Kariong (in the Brisbane Water National Park)
- Quality: 4/5
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 87
- Motifs: Bird, Eel, Emu, Fish, Hand, Kangaroo, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Whale, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
A large rock platform near the Milyerra Trail, with engravings of a 40' whale and 10' kangaroo.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
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A rock ledge with multiple Aboriginal engravings, axe grinding grooves and a waterhole near the Milyerra Trail
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Bird, Fish, Goanna, Oval, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
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A very weathered Aboriginal engraving of a man, on a sloping rock. It is one of a series of ten sites near the Milyerra Trail documented by Ian Sim.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1967
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An Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo; one of a series of ten sites documented by Ian Sim near the Milyerra Trail
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 0
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
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An Aboriginal engraving site of a man with upstretched arms near the Milyerra Road Firetrail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
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An Aboriginal engraving site near the Milyerra Road Firetrail, which has two fish.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: -1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1995
A small Aboriginal engraving site with two kangaroos, three fish, an eel and a shield, which is part of a series of ten sites documented by Ian Sim near the Milyerra Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
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Aboriginal engravings of a kangaroo, head of a kangaroo and shield on scattered rock surfaces; they are part of a series of ten sites documented by Ian Sim near the Milyerra Trail
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
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Minerva Pool in the Dharawal National Park is a sacred women's place for the Aboriginal Dharawal People.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Water Hole
- Year first recorded: 2011
Eight complete or partial hand stencils were recorded in this small shelter in 1981 (some stencils are quite faint, and two are affected by graffiti).
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
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A significant Aboriginal cultural site, the Moon Rock Aboriginal Site was declared an Aboriginal Place in 2016. The site has over 50 engravings, including tools and weapons used and animals caught and eaten in the area.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 86
- Motifs: Baiame, Bird, Club, Boomerang, Dolphin, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Track, Lines, Man, Moon, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Spear
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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An extensive group of engravings, the Mooney Mooney Aboriginal Area includes many kangaroos, two rainbow serpents and many other figures.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 45
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bandicoot, Boomerang, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Ibis, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
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In a shelter along the Little Digger Track in Ku-ring-gai are five hand stencils in red ochre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2007
Axe Grinding Grooves above the Corrumbine Creek Firetrail, in Brisbane Water National Park.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1995
Dark red ochre paintings preserved in two rock shelters on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Manning, in Yengo National Park.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 45
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Dingo, Echidna
- Originally recorded by: N. W. G. Macintosh
- Year first recorded: 1965
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Seventeen Aboriginal sites located and around Mount Murray Anderson. They include multiple deity figures, two enormous whales and some stone arrangements.
- Quality: 4/5
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stone arrangement, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 64
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Boomerang, Deity, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Man, Oval, Shield, Stingray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
A ten-foot high Aboriginal engraving of Baiame in a commanding position, at the end of the Mount Murray Anderson ridge.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Deity
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch