This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
Aboriginal engraving of an indeterminate object, near the Mitchell Fire Trail
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1995
Very distinct Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo above the Tunnel Firetrail.
- Quality: 4/5
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
A small engraving of what may be a wombat, and axe grinding grooves, on a rock platform above the Tunnel Firetrail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Wombat
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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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
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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
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A large shelter in Popran National Park, the Upside Down Man Cave has over 274 motifs, representing three engraving types.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 280
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Echidna, Eel, Fish, Hand, Kangaroo, Man, Snake
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1992
Recorded during a field survey conducted prior to the construction of the Sydney to Newcastle freeway through Cowan, this Aboriginal engraving site was determined as being of significant anthropological significance.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 35
- Motifs: Club, Echidna, Man, Mundoe (foot), Woman
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch