This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
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Scattered figures including two fish and a small man at the start of the Towlers Bay Track at West Head
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Motifs: Fish, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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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
A weathered Aboriginal engraving on rock platform just off the Van Dahls Firetrail in Patonga.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2018
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
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A "fishing scene" near the Wallaroo Track, which includes a woman, fish and boomerang.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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An intriguing Aboriginal engraving site near the Wallaroo Track, with five men (in two groups) as well as a number of other figures including boomerangs and mundoes.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Boomerang, Crescent, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1988
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Aboriginal engraving site which has a set of axe grinding grooves next to a waterhole, and three engraved figures. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Club, Echidna, Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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An Aboriginal rock enrgraving site below the Waratah Track, described as depicting a successful emu hunt,
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Emu, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
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An Aboriginal engraving site on a spur beneath the Waratah Track, which may illustrate a fishing scene.
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Fish, Man, Shield, Stingray, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
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Two potholes with a deep channel around them and two axe grinding grooves along a steep ledge. A short distance away are engravings of a shield and fish (not found).
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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Aboriginal engraving site which represents a man with fish which are his totem (or which he hopes to catch) near the Waratah Track. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Fish, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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