This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Three very distinct Aboriginal hand stencils and a fish in red ochre, on rock overhangs along Smiths Creek
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Fish, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Deep shelter above Smiths Creek, with Aboriginal cave art (two men painted in red ochre)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
A significant Aboriginal engraving site at Cottage Point, with two deity (Baiame) figures. Both have a rayed headress and vertical stripes on their bodies.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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An enormous shelter named from it's location near The Sphinx, this site has 91 motifs including charcoal paintings and hand stencils.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 91
- Motifs: Deity, Hand, Kangaroo, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews
- Year first recorded: 1896
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Baiame, Boomerang, Deity, Fish, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
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Next to the Pacific Motorway (M1), the Spring Gully (or Cockle Creek) site has 83 engraved figures across multiple locations.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 97
- Motifs: Bird, Boomerang, Echidna, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Stingray, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1959
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A small shelter with multiple red hand stencils in North Wahroonga
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1979
Water channels that appear to of Aboriginal origin, below the STEP Track in South Turramurra.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Water Hole
- Year first recorded: 2021
This sacred cave depicts generations of markings and drawings, with 857 motifs (mainly handprints) – the largest assemblage of motifs of any currently known sites.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 857
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Boomerang, Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1978
An Aboriginal engraving of a deity (probably Baiame) on a large rock platform below the Taber trig station
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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An Aboriginal engraving of a man or deity on a large rock platform below the Taber trig station.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Aboriginal engraving of a seal, sea lion or dugong, near the edge of a large rock platform below Taber Trig
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Fish, Seal
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A long and deep shelter near the Taber Trig, with charcoal drawings (documented by Campbell) and red hand stencils
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A small Aboriginal engraving site west of Taber Trig. Figures include a kangaroo, fih and six mundoes,
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot), Oval
- Year first recorded: 1975
Shelter with a single Aboriginal charcoal drawing in Taffys Gully.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An Aboriginal engraving site on a low saddle along the track to Taffys Rock, which has two whales and a wallaby.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1899
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The Hunting Site and Lyrebird Site are two Aboriginal engraving sites in Terrey Hills, One represents a hunting scene, and the other is named after an engraving of a lyrebird.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 46
- Motifs: Bird Track, Boomerang, Deer, Echidna, Kangaroo, Lines, Lyrebird, Man, Mundoe (foot), Possum, Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1941
An small Aboriginal engraving site depicting a hunter and his two wives celebrating a successful kangaroo hunt.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1941
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The Lyrebird Site in Larool Reserve (Terrey Hills) features an engraving of a lyrebird, as well as many other animal carvings.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 31
- Motifs: Bird Track, Boomerang, Echidna, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Lyrebird, Possum, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1941
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Pictographs and petroglyphs dated up to several thousand years old are located at the base of one of The Chimneys
- Quality: 5/5
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Lines