This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
The Kings Tableland Aboriginal Place is a significant Aboriginal site in the Blue Mountains, which has a large number of grinding grooves and a shelter with carvings on the wall of animal tracks.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Bird Track, Emu Track, Kangaroo Track
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1973
An unusual Aboriginal engraing site in Lane Cove National Park, which contains only emu and kangaroo tracks.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Bird Track
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
- Year first recorded: 1979
- View site sketch
Aboriginal red ochre and charcoal figures in a tall and long shelter near Woy Woy. An impressive site unfortunately damaged by graffiti.
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1899
Shelter below Koolewong Ridge, which has Aboriginal charcoal art (indeterminate motifs) and a midden.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2019
Aboriginal cave art in a long shelter below the Koolewong Ridge Firetrail. There are over 30 ideterminate motifs in charcoal and ochre.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 23
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1985
A large weathered whale (over six metres in length) along the Koolewong Ridge Firetrail. It was first documented by W.D. Campbell.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
A very weathered engraving of a whale and its calf, on the headland at La Perouse.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal rock engraving of a single kangaroo in Lawson in the Blue Mountains, on Kangaroo St.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1967
A significant site based on the incredibly large number of axe grinding grooves (>250), this site along Layburys Creek also has two shelters with rock art.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Axe, Boomerang, Hand
- Year first recorded: 1987
Three weathered charcoal figures located in a long shelter behind a waterfall on Layburys Creek.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1987
A long but shallow overhang with multiple Aboriginal hand stencils, near the Lilavale Track.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2022
The Little Beach Aboriginal engraving site has two vertical engravings, of a whale and a fish.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Whale
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1977
Aboriginal art site with dry charcoal sketches of what may be birds, in a large shelter above Flint and Steel Beach
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Bird
- Year first recorded: 1988
A small shelter below the Red Hands Track, with two handprints in red ochre, and additional stencils of what may be pieces of bark.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1964
On one of the rock platforms along the Little Moab Track is a school of (four) whales and a deity figure… the engravings are very faint and weathered and hard to make out.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Near a proposed MLALC residential development site at Lizard Rock are Aboriginal engravings of a kangaroo, and at least six mundoes (footprints)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
- Year first recorded: 1975
An Aboriginal engraving site near the Flannel Flower Walking Track in Bouddi NP, which has multiple ovals/circles, two shields and a club or boomerang.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Vandalised
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Boomerang, Jellyfish, Oval, Shield, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
An Aboriginal engraving site in Bouddi NP, with a single carving of a kangaroo.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
An Aboriginal engraving site on the ridge above Lobster Beach in Bouddi NP, which has a man, a fish and what may be a mantra ray.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure, Man, Manta Ray
- Year first recorded: 2019
An Aboriginal engraving of an axe and a second indeterminate figure, near the Long Track.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Axe, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1983