This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Sacred Canyon in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park has Aboriginal engraving on the walls of the gorge representing camp sites, springs and water holes.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Bird Track, Oval
Single Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo on a rock platform near the Salvation Loop Track.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 1988
Aboriginal engravings of four kangaroos, a wombat and what looks like an emu on a rock platform near the Salvation Loop Track.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Emu, Kangaroo, Wombat
- Year first recorded: 1988
One of the most spectacular Aboriginal rock art sites in Sydney's north, with red ochre and charcoal drawings across two adjacent shelters.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Deity, Goanna, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
- Year first recorded: 2021
Large wallaby and kangaroo and a smaller macropod near Kariong Scout Camp Road.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1981
Aboriginal engraving of a fish or an eel, above a waterfall at Kariong Scout Camp.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel, Fish
- Year first recorded: 2021
A lesser-known site featuring seven shields, located below the "Seven Rabbits" (Woy Woy) site
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Club, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal rock engraving of an indeterminate object, on top of a large rock near Currawong Beach.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1986
- View site sketch
One of several Aboriginal engraving sites along Shark Rock Ridge. It includes a large stingray, multiple fish, emus, kangaroos and kangaroo rats and a man (who may be hunting or fishing).
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 22
- Motifs: Club, Boomerang, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Rat, Man, Oval, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site along Shark Rock Ridge, which may represent "a hunting incident in the mythology or a totemic ritual".
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 41
- Motifs: Bird, Fish, Koala, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engraving of a single shield with two transverse lines, to the east of St Ives Showground.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Shield
- Year first recorded: 1980
At the end of the Slade Lookout Track is "fake" engraving of an emu or waterfowl, and a lizard that is almost directly underneath the bird.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Emu, Goanna, Swamp Hen
- Year first recorded: 1788
A solitary footprint on a rock platform above the Slippery Dip Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1992
- View site sketch
An unusual depiction of Baiame at an Aboriginal engraving site above Cottage Point Road. The figure has two horns, and is holding a shield and a dilly bag.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Basket, Boomerang, Deity, Fish, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1894
- View site sketch
Aboriginal Shelter with Art (SWA) near Smiths Creek, which has multiple figures drawn in charcoal
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2017
An Aboriginal engraving site above Smiths Creek, the large rock platform has a pair of clearly-cut emus, a large fish and a shield.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Emu, Fish, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1989
- View site sketch
A small but interesting Aboriginal engraving site just below Cottage Point Road, with over 20 figures including two men (or deities) and two women, one of whom has caught a fish.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Club, Deity, Fish, Kangaroo, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Snake, Spear, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Three vertical Aboriginal rock engravings of fish, above Smiths Creek
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 1964
Sandstone shelter along Smiths Creek with three fish drawn in charcoal.
- Quality: 4/5
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1943
An Aboriginal engraving of a goanna or lizard, just below Cottage Point Road
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Goanna
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017