This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Boomerang on a long rock ledge below the Myall Trail.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Boomerang
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Two leaping kangaroos, part of an emu and with rays on his head forms part of what may represent a hunting scene near the Myall Trail
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Vandalised
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Emu, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch
Along the Myall Trail are a number of Aboriginal heritage sites, including engravings and cave art, that reflect a fruitful hunting ground.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 107
- Motifs: Bird, Club, Echidna, Emu, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1976
Two kangaroos on either side of a rock shelter; one with entrails coming out of its stomach
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Kangaroo - Speared
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch
Above the Gosford Railway Dams in Narara is an Aboriginal engraving site and a long wave-like shelter with art, both only (relatively) recently documented.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Goanna, Hand, Koala, Rainbow Serpent
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1974
- View site sketch
Located in the middle of an informal walking track between Natural Arch Track and Forestville Park is a wallaby or kangaroo. A few nearby engravings are considered to be fake.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A small shelter with Aboriginal charcoal drawings in the McPherson State Forest, near the Crane Ridge Trail.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1993
A nice set of Aboriginal axe grinding grooves, along the bed of an unnamed creek north of Little Tootie
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 2023
An Aboriginal rock art site with two charcoal motifs in a shelter north of Little Tootie, in Wollemi National Park.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2023
A signposted rock engraving site in Bouddi National Park, the North West Ridge Aboriginal Site has four figures - but only a 4m orca is still visible.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Dolphin, Stingray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1994
An example of a scarred tree in the Blue Mountains, which has been burnt in the 2019/2020 bushfires.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Fire damage
- Scarred Tree
A sacred Aboriginal engraving site in Somersby, which has a large Daramulan figure.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Mundoe (foot), Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1945
- View site sketch
A significant Aboriginal engraving site in Somersby, which includes a large bird of ceremonial significance and an anthropomorphic "spirit figure".
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 28
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Dingo, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1945
- View site sketch / detailed McCarthy sketches
Small group of weathered Aboriginal engravings near the start of the Duckponds Trail in Marramarra National Park
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1979
A small Aboriginal engraving site in Faulconbridge, which includes two men and a leaping kangaroo, as well as many axe grinding grooves. It was likely a ceremonial site.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Partially Destroyed
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of an indeterminate figure, above Patonga Drive and near a large whale engraving.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2019
- View site sketch
A few hand stencils in a long sandstone overhang on Porto Ridge, near Peak Hill.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2012
Five mundoes (of which only two are now visible) on an overgrown rock platform on Porto Ridge near Peak Hill.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
Multiple piles of stones on a small rock platform are likely to be an Aboriginal stone arrangement.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed
- Stone arrangement
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2012
A small Aboriginal engraving site along the Peats Crater Trail in the Muogamarra Nature Reserve.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Bird, Kangaroo