This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal rock art site above Joe Crafts Creek, with a single charcoal drawing.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2021
A single red hand stencil above Joe Crafts Creek, in a wide but shallow shelter.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2021
A charcoal drawing of a jumping kangaroo, in a large and open shelter in the McPherson State Forest
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
Located along the Kamber Road Trail is an Aboriginal engraving of a man, with upright hands.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
- View site sketch
Located on the edge of a ledge, with views over Garigal NP, is an Aboriginal engraving site with a couple of quite well-defined shields, a kangaroo and a boomerang.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Boomerang, Kangaroo, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
- View site sketch
A distinct carving of a stingray, on a boulder just above the Hawkesbury River (Deerubbin) near Peats Ferrry Bridge.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Stingray
- Year first recorded: 1995
- View site sketch
Eleven figures have been recorded (one is no longer visible) on a large rock platform near the Central Coast Fire Control Centre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Emu, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
The ledges along Keep River were a wet season shelter for the Miriwoong people, with the rock art remaining as evidence of their presence.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Anthropomorph
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Emu
- Year first recorded: 2021
A small but deep cave in Mt Ku-ring-gai has four clearly-stencilled hand prints in ochre.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1985
- View site sketch
A rock platform near the Kimmerikong Trail has Aboriginal engravings whch include a row of ten fish, and a very weathered human figure.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 2007
An elevated rock platform along the Kimmerikong Ridge (Muogamarra National Park) which has 13 figures, incuding a large Daramulan.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Club, Daramulan, Deity, Eel, Fish, Goanna
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site on a large rock platform along the Kimmerikong Ridge, with three fish, an oval and an eel. Nearby are multiple heaps of stones.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Eel, Fish
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch – Eel (Mcarthy) / Fish (Campbell)
A weathered Aboriginal rock engravings site along the Kimmerikong Ridge, which was said to depict an initiation ceremony.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Child, Man, Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
Three charchoal figures at an Aboriginal Shelter with Art site on Kincumba Mountain.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 2010
An Aboriginal engraving of an anthropomorphic figure on Kincumba Mountain
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Lines
- Year first recorded: 1992
An Aboriginal engraving of an eel on Kincumba mountain.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1992
A compact Aboriginal site on Kincumba mountain, wihch includes fish and an eel, as well as some unusual figures.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Lines, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1992
Partly covered by moss, this Aboriginal engraving of a macropod is on a small rock platform on Kincumba mountain.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1992
An Aboriginal engraving of a koala on Kincumba mountain.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Koala
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1992