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 macropod near the Long Track / Long Trail.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1983
A complex Aborigial engraving site across multiple adjacent platforms, which includes a very long line of footprints (mundoes) and a depiction of Baiame.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 50
- Motifs: Baiame, Boomerang, Deity, Dingo, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Seal, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Hand stencils and what may be a stencil of a boomerang in red ochre in a shallow overhang near the Long Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Hand
- Year first recorded: 1985
An Aboriginal engraving site which may represent a hunting scene, on the western side of the Long Trail
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man, Shield
- Year first recorded: 1984
- View site sketch
Long Trail Trig is an Aboriginal engraving site described as a "remarkable ceremonial group" with a deity and two composite beings.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Kangaroo, Spear
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch
The Lovers and Whales Aboriginal engraving site near the Salvation Loop Track at West Head features an enormous whale, and a copulating couple
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Bird, Man, Oval, Shield, Whale, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
- View site sketch
Below the Lovett Bay pool is a set of axe griinding grooves.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 2022
An Aboriginal engraving of a man and a "composite emu spirit figure"; it's one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Man, Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
The area around Lyre Trig has over twenty Aboriginal engraving sites, many recorded by Campbell, Sim and McCarthy and some containing unusual carvings.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 99
- Motifs: Bird, Deity, Eel, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Oval, Shark, Shield, Snake
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
An Aboriginal engraving of a single fish; one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
A large Aboriiginal engraving of a kangaroo near the Lyre Trig Track; possibly a mytholigical figure due to its size.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
A complex and likely Aboriginal engraving significant site below the Lyre Trig in Kariong. The site has over sixty figures and axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 59
- Motifs: Club, Boomerang, Dolphin, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Koala, Man, Oval, Shark, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
An interesting Aboriginal engraving site which has 14 figures, including a marine creature (which could be a shark), a snake and an indeterminate animal. It's one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shark, Snake
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
Two very weathered wallabies near the Lyre Trig Firetrail.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal engraving of a single wallaby, which is fairly weathed; it's one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
A man (fairly weathered) south of the Mackerel Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Single fish near Mackerel Track, on a rock platform surrounded by thick scrub
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Three weathered shields and another figure on a small rock platform, near the Mackerel Trail
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Shield
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A whale and bird engraving, and number of “stone circles” formed by thousands of small pebbles arranged in neat circles.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Ibis, Lines, Oval, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A small group of Aboriginal engravings on a spur above Maitland bay. The figures include a shark, fish, an eel and a shield.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Mundoe (foot), Shark, Shield
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976