This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Among the many Aboriginal engraving sites around Cottage Point are a number which depict Baiame, a deity figure and ancestral hero of the Aboriginal people.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 47
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Deity, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
Aboriginal engraving of a bulbous headed club on Topham Hill
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Club
- Year first recorded: 2021
Aboriginal engraving of an eel on the southern side of Topham Hill
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1989
An interesting Aboriginal engraving site on Topham Hill depicting a school of 30 fish; below this site is a weathered carving of a man.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 67
- Motifs: Bird, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Rat, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shark, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Aboriginal rock carving of a male wallaby or kangaroo, on Topham Hill.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1986
Multiple Aboriginal engravings located on five sites across the western side of Topham Hill, on a series of rock ledges.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Bird, Bird Track, Club, Boomerang, Emu, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Koala, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1944
- View site sketch
Off-track exploration of the Aboriginal engravings on Topham Hill, just south of the Topham Track.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 103
- Motifs: Bird Track, Club, Boomerang, Daramulan, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Rat, Koala, Man, Shield, Stingray, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1944
An Aboriginal engraving site near the Topham Trail, which has two overlapping men.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man
- Year first recorded: 1988
Axe grinding grooves and water channels along a creek below the Topham Trail.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2019
A small site near the Topham Trail with an indistinct engraving, which may be a boomerang.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Boomerang, Eel
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2020
An Aboriginal engraving of a circle, carved on a small boulder near the Topham Trail.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Oval
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A fairly distinct Aboriginal engraving of an emu, near the Topham Trail
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Emu
- Year first recorded: 1987
A small rock platform near the Topham Trail with a very weathered Aboriginal engraving of a small man.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2020
Two red ochre handprints, in a low shelter below Topham Hill
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
The Topham Trig Station engraving site is one of great ceremonial significance. It has a Daramulan figure, as well as a man and woman.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Boomerang, Child, Daramulan, Deity, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1941
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal art site in a rock shelter in St Ives, which has orange lines and a single hand stencil.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1965
Shelter in Twin Creeks Reserve with cave paintings in red ochre and multiple hand stencils
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1989
Four axe grinding grooves and an engraved water channel, in a small pool just above the Two Creeks Track.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Water Hole
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
- Year first recorded: 1990
A vertical Aboriginal rock engraving on Smiths Creek, with a frieze containing eleven figures, and an adjacent site with five mundoes
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Child, Fish, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engraving of a wallaby on a small rock, above Smith Creek
- 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: 1898
- View site sketch