This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal engraving of a deity on a sloping rock below Mount Murray Anderson. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Deity
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1959
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of an echidna. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Echidna
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
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An Aboriginal engraving site depicting four leaping kangaroos on a huge rock platform below Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A weathered Aboriginal engraving of a man holding a shield and boomerang. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
A series of Aboriginal engraving sites to the south-west of Mount Murray Anderson, which includes two large whales, a man-emu composite figure and a stone arrangement.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Boomerang, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Stingray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Fish
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A compact Aboriginal engraving site that includes two men and four shields. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Emu, Man, Oval, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
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An interesting waterhole to the south-west of Mount Murray Anderson, with multiple overlapping Aboriginal engravings and axe-grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Boomerang, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2017
Under a small rock overhang near Mount Olive are some well-preserved cave paintings, including a wallaby and some indeterminate figures.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1992
A small site sandwiched between the old Pacific Highway and the railway line and accessed by an unsigned track. The site features three figures and a very long line of mundoes.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 74
- Motifs: Baiame, Basket, Boomerang, Fish, Kangaroo Track, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1904
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Aboriginal rock art including charcoal drawings and red ochre hand stencils in a long shelter below the old Pacific Highway
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal engraving site above the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track with a giant bandicoot, echidna, three men and what may be an ancestral figure.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Bandicoot, Deity, Echidna, Man
- Year first recorded: 1982
An Aboriginal engraving site on Taffys Rock, which consists of a line (50m in length) of 44 footprints around the summit.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 44
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
An impressive collection of motifs in red, white and black at the Mungana Rock Art site (one of two publicly accessible Aboriginal art sites in the Chillagoe area). The art surrounded by high limestone cliffs.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Bird Track, Indeterminate figure, Shield, Snake
Described as an "animal scene", the 15 engravings on a rock platform along the Myall Trail in Mt Ku-ring-gai includes a number of wallabies and kangaroos
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 16
- Motifs: Club, Echidna, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
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A long Shelter with Art along the Myall Trail, which includes over 80 motifs drawn in charcoal
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 80
- Year first recorded: 1988
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Boomerang on a long rock ledge below the Myall Trail.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Boomerang
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Two leaping kangaroos, part of an emu and with rays on his head forms part of what may represent a hunting scene near the Myall Trail
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Vandalised
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Emu, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
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Along the Myall Trail are a number of Aboriginal heritage sites, including engravings and cave art, that reflect a fruitful hunting ground.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 107
- Motifs: Bird, Club, Echidna, Emu, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1976
Two kangaroos on either side of a rock shelter; one with entrails coming out of its stomach
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Kangaroo - Speared
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch