This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal engraving site in Maroota depicting a kangaroo hunt, the figures include a man, two kangaroos, three koalas and two eels.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 16
- Motifs: Eel, Goanna, Kangaroo, Kangaroo - Speared, Koala, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1959
A small shelter with Aboriginal rock art, just outside the Wollemi National Park. The deep overhang has a number of hand stencils, as well as one of a hand and a club.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 26
- Motifs: Club, Foot, Hand
- Year first recorded: 1985
An Aboriginal engraving of a fish below the Bairne Track at West Head
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2020
Aboriginal engraving near Bairne Trig (West Head) with figures incuding a man or woman, and a koala.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Boomerang, Koala, Man, Shield, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A potentially significant site near the Bairne Trig, which has figures of men and women, an unusual shield and what may be a stone arrangement.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Fish, Man, Shark, Woman
- Year first recorded: 2021
Five mundoes near the Bairne Trig (West Head)
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
A very small and low shelter with a single Aboriginal red ochre hand stencil.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
A shelter with Aboriginal rock art, consisting of faint figures and lines in both white and red ochre.
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Lines
An engraving of a whale around six metres in length, within the tail of which there is faded, but just-visible man.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Man, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A small Aboriginal rock engraving site near the Bambara Trail, which includes a stingray and a fish
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1999
A very long but shallow overhang with a series of alcoves, the Banksia Shelter in the McPherson State Forest includes two large Aboriginal paintings in red ochre.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Goanna, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1988
An enormous Aboriginal engraving site, which was the first to be visited by Europeans in 1788. There are over 100 figures representing different scenes.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 116
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Axe, Basket, Club, Boomerang, Dingo, Echidna, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Hand, Jellyfish, Kangaroo, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Snake, Spear, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An unusual rock engraving site above Bantry Bay, which is within a low shelter. The figures include two echidnsas and boomerangs,
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Boomerang, Echidna, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
- Year first recorded: 1996
- View site sketch
Interpreted as a hunting scene, this small Aboriginal engraving site near the Cook Street Trail features a large emu/turtle, superimposed with a man (or hunter). Nearby sre two snakes.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Emu, Man, Snake, Turtle
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An overhang above Bantry Bay, which has sixteen well-preserved Aboriginal stencils in red ochre.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 16
- Motifs: Hand, Oval
- Year first recorded: 1977
Petroglyphs and pictographs in a small cave along the Barker Dam Trail in Joshua Tree National Park.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Lines, Man, Snake
Barnetts Shelter (SWA) has a small number of charcoal motifs in a sandstone overhang in Berowra Valley National Park.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2021
This group of three fish engravings enjoys fine water views. There are numerous Aboriginal heritage sites on the Barrenjoey Headland, including three listed Aboriginal archaeological sites, two middens and a cave.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish
One of the most spectacular shelters in the McPherson State Forest, the Basalt Hill Shelter (also known as the "Big Cave") contains over 100 Aboriginal rock art motifs.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 125
- Motifs: Bird, Club, Echidna, Eel, Emu, Fish, Man, Shield, Snake, Turtle
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
The Basin Aboriginal Site is a significant, signposted rock engraving site along the Basin Track. It has 53 figures, and interpretative signage.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 53
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Club, Boomerang, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Moon, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1964
- View site sketch