This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Faint Aboriginal charcoal drawings, in a small shelter near the industrial area of Mt Ku-ring-gai
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
Vertical engraving in a rock shelter near Appletree Bay depicting half a woman
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Woman
- Year first recorded: 2001
An Aboriginal engraving of a small fish along the Hardys Bay Trail in Bouddi National Park.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 2018
An Aboriginal engraving of a marine creature along the Hardys Bay Trail in Bouddi National Park.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2018
An Aboriginal engraving site which has two large whales - both swimming in the same direction but on separate rock platforms - along Hardys Bay Trail in Bouddi National Park.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Whale
- Year first recorded: 2018
Arc in red ochre on the back of a large shelter, near the Harvey Trig Station.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Oval
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1983
A very well-preserved Aboriginal engraving of a wallaby or kangaroo, above Hawkes Head Drive
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2018
A long (30m) and tall shelter has a number of smooth niches in which there are over 30 charcoal drawings of birds, emus, wallabies and many indeterminate figures.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Bird, Emu, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1985
A single engraved circle and three sets of axe grinding grooves in a small rock platform in Hidden Valley.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Stone circle
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 2021
On top of Honemans Rock in Kincumba Mountain Reserve are three lines (which may not be of Aboriginal origin) and two axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Lines
The Howe Aboriginal Area is one of the most important ceremonial Aboriginal rock engraving sites in the Sydney area. Figures includes an enormous Daramulan and three Rainbow-Serpents.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Daramulan, Kangaroo, Koala, Man, Oval, Rainbow Serpent
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1947
- View site sketch
The Hungry Trig engravings are on a small rock platform below a low cliff, surrounded by dense bush. The site has many figures including 12 ovals and three decorated men.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 27
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Octopus, Oval, Shield, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Three shelters along a low cliff line near the Hungry Trig station contain one or two Aboriginal red ochre hand stencils
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 1978
The Indian Cave in Kodachrome Basin State Park has over a hundred grooves or handprints carved into the sandstone wall outside a shallow overhang. It's not certain that they were made by American Indians.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 100
- Motifs: Hand
An Aboriginal engraving on a spur above Cowan Creek, which may depict an initiation ceremony. The group of figures includes two deitiies and seven men.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Deity, Kangaroo, Man, Oval, Shark
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch
The Intestine Man rock art site in Utah features an anthropomorphic figure which has its intestines showing, as well as three bighorn sheep and other motifs.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 25
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Man, Sheep
Aboriginal engraving of a platypus, carved in an unusually simple style.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Platypus
- Year first recorded: 1984
An Aboriginal site of "ritual importance" near the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track. It includes a large composite figure of a seal.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Eel, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A significant, signposted Aboriginal engraving site in the Royal National Park, the Jibbon Head Engravings are a short walk from Bundeena. The carvings can be seen from an elevated boardwalk with interpretive signage.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Deity, Jellyfish, Shark, Shield, Turtle, Whale
- Year first recorded: 1904
The Joalah Firetrail Aboriginal engraving is a small carving of what may be a man, woman or anthropomorph.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1982
- View site sketch