This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
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 engracing 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
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
Numerous engraving and cave art sites along the Basin Track and Mackerel Track. Many are hidden just off the trails, but the signposted Basin Aboriginal Site is easily accessed.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 270
- Motifs: Basket, Boomerang, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Moon, Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
A small Aboriginal engraving site near the start of the Basin Trail, with a single fish
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 2017
Faint hand stencils in a low rock shelter above the Euro Track.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A small Aboriginal engraving site near the start of the Basin Trail, with a single eel
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A shark, two eels and large fish (originally thought to be a koala) on a rock platform in a valley above The Basin
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Shark
- Year first recorded: 1993
- View site sketch
A set of axe grinding grooves (AGG) along the creek, near the Basin Track.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
The Basin Track Ray is a deeply cut, distinct Aboriginal engravng described as an “indeterminate figure”.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1980
- View site sketch
Speared shark (partly damaged) above the Basin Track on a low rock platform.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Partially Destroyed
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Shark
- Year first recorded: 1961
- View site sketch