This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Above the Gosford Railway Dams in Narara is an Aboriginal engraving site and a long wave-like shelter with art, both only (relatively) recently documented.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Goanna, Hand, Koala
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1974
- View site sketch
Located in the middle of an informal walking track between Natural Arch Track and Forestville Park is a wallaby or kangaroo. A few nearby engravings are considered to be fake.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A small shelter with Aboriginal charcoal drawings in the McPherson State Forest, near the Crane Ridge Trail.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1993
Grooved water channel and axe grinding grooves on a rock platform near the Pogson Trig Firetrail.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Water Hole
- Year first recorded: 2021
A long rock overhang which contains numerous art motifs, including a stencilled hand, two macropod figures and some unidentified lines.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2005
A signposted site next to Quarter Sessions Road has an Aboriginal engraving depicting a pair of leaping kangaroos.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Re-located
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Jo McDonald, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
Aboriiginal engraving of a large speared kangaroo as well as two nearby human figures near Raverson Close.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Axe, Hand, Kangaroo, Kangaroo - Speared, Man
- Year first recorded: 1979
One of the best showcases of Aboriginal art in the area, the singposted Red Hands Cave at West Head has multiple red ochre handprints.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
Faint Aboriginal hand stencil, in a shallow shelter on the back of Topham Hill
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2019
An Aboriginal engraving of an eel in the the creek bed above Refuge Bay Waterfall
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel
- Year first recorded: 1987
Aboriginal red hand stenci in a shelter below the Resolute Track.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
The signposted Resolute Track Aboriginal Engraving Site is a short walk from the Resolute Picnic Area. It has several figures, including a man with a club across his waist.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Club, Eel, Fish, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1965
- View site sketch
Along the Resolute Track are a number of scattered Aboriginal engraving sites. These include the signposted Resolute Aboriginal Engraving Site.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 47
- Motifs: Club, Eel, Fish, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shark, Snake
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1898
Aboriginal engravings of five eels, two fish and a shark along the Resolute Track (West Head)
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Shark
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1965
- View site sketch
A line of six mundoes at one of the many Aboriginal engraving sites scattered around the Resolute Track
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engraving of a small man, on rock platform above Resolute Track (West Head).
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal engravng of a snake (which is bent double) along the Resolute Track.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Snake
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
An enormous Aboriginal engraving of a whale (just under 12m in length) above the Resolute Track.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
- View site sketch
A solitary engraving of a whale with an oblong figure at its snout. Nice views from this rock platform.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
More than 6000 carvings on several sites around Alta, which bear the traces of settlement dating from 7000 to 500 BC. A walkway passes a number of panels in this UNESCO World Heritage listed area.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 6000
- Motifs: Axe, Bear, Bear track, Bird, Dog/Wolf, Elk, Fence, Fish, Man, Mundoe (foot), Rabbit, Reindeer, Sailing Ship, Seal, Spear, Whale
- Year first recorded: 1973