This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A small Aboriginal engraving site with two kangaroos, three fish, an eel and a shield, which is part of a series of ten sites documented by Ian Sim near the Milyerra Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engravings of a kangaroo, head of a kangaroo and shield on scattered rock surfaces; they are part of a series of ten sites documented by Ian Sim near the Milyerra Trail
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
Minerva Pool in the Dharawal National Park is a sacred women's place for the Aboriginal Dharawal People.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Water Hole
- Year first recorded: 2011
Eight complete or partial hand stencils were recorded in this small shelter in 1981 (some stencils are quite faint, and two are affected by graffiti).
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site with an enormous (14m) whale and two men on a rock platform above Mona Vale Road.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Man, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Campbell sketch (whale) / McCarthy sketch (additonal figures)
An Aboriginal engraving site with a weathered figured of a woman, on a small rock ledge near Mona Vale Road
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Woman
- Year first recorded: 1981
A significant Aboriginal cultural site, the Moon Rock Aboriginal Site was declared an Aboriginal Place in 2016. The site has over 50 engravings, including tools and weapons used and to catch animals that were eaten in the area.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 86
- Motifs: Baiame, Bird, Club, Boomerang, Dolphin, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Track, Lines, Man, Moon, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Spear
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An extensive group of engravings, the Mooney Mooney Aboriginal Area includes many kangaroos, two rainbow serpents and many other figures.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 45
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bandicoot, Boomerang, Fish, Goanna, Ibis, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Rainbow Serpent, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
- View site sketch [PDF]
In a shelter along the Little Digger Track in Ku-ring-gai are five hand stencils in red ochre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2007
Axe Grinding Grooves above the Corrumbine Creek Firetrail, in Brisbane Water National Park.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stone circle
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure, Man
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim, Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1995
Weathered Aboriginal cave art in red ochre, in a shelter near Lyrebird Gully in Mount Colah
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2023
Two adjacent indigenous heritage sites along Mount Irvine Road near Bilpin. One has axe grinding grooves, and the other hand stencils.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
Dark red ochre paintings preserved in two rock shelters on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Manning, in Yengo National Park.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 45
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Dingo, Echidna
- Originally recorded by: N. W. G. Macintosh
- Year first recorded: 1965
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Seventeen Aboriginal sites located and around Mount Murray Anderson. They include multiple deity figures, two enormous whales and some stone arrangements.
- Quality: 4/5
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stone arrangement, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 64
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Boomerang, Deity, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Man, Oval, Shield, Stingray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
A ten-foot high Aboriginal engraving of Baiame in a commanding position, at the end of the Mount Murray Anderson ridge.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Deity
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a deity on a sloping rock below Mount Murray Anderson. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Deity
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1959
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of an echidna. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Echidna
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site depicting four leaping kangaroos on a huge rock platform below Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A weathered Aboriginal engraving of a man holding a shield and boomerang. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
A series of Aboriginal engraving sites to the south-west of Mount Murray Anderson, which includes two large whales, a man-emu composite figure and a stone arrangement.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Boomerang, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Stingray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch