This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal rock engraving of an indeterminate object, on top of a large rock near Currawong Beach.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1986
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A small Aboriginal engraving site, with two shields and a small man with bent legs.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1960
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Below the Shark Rock Ridge in dense scrub is an Aboriginal engraving of a "protective deity, holding up a fish with the right hand"
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity, Fish, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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An Aboriginal engraving site with an adult and young emu, on a small rock platform just above the Pacific Motorway.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: -1
- Motifs: Emu
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
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Shark Rock Ridge has a series of Aboriginal engraving sites, most of which were documented by Campbell in 1899 and McCarthy in 1960. A few shelters with art and additional engraving sites were recorded more recently.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 52
- Motifs: Bird, Boomerang, Deity, Emu, Fish, Goanna, Indeterminate figure, Jellyfish, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Rat, Man, Oval, Shield, Stingray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
One of several Aboriginal engraving sites along Shark Rock Ridge. It includes a large stingray, multiple fish, emus, kangaroos and kangaroo rats and a man (who may be hunting or fishing).
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 22
- Motifs: Club, Boomerang, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Rat, Man, Oval, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An Aboriginal engraving site along Shark Rock Ridge, which may represent "a hunting incident in the mythology or a totemic ritual". It has 14 figures, including two "koala bears" which resemble a Daramulan.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Basket, Bird, Fish, Koala, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A ritual or mythological Aboriginal engraving site along Shark Rock Ridge. The six figures include a man with large and distinct mouth.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Fish, Goanna, Indeterminate figure, Jellyfish, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1960
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Along the Shark Rock Ridge track is an Aboriginal engraving of a whale; the enormous figure is ten metres in length, with a goanna and whale inside the whale.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Goanna, Man, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Shaws Creek Aboriginal Place contains a small Aboriginal engraving, which has two kangaroos and five kangaroo tracks - and an additional carving likely to be European. There are also multiple axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Kangaroo Track
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1948
A long rock shelter with spectacular Aboriginal cave paintings in red ochre. The four large figures are said to represent quails.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Bird, Hand
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1985
Aboriginal engraving of a single shield with two transverse lines, to the east of St Ives Showground.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Shield
- Year first recorded: 1980
The Site of the Emus (or Bird Cave) in McPherson State Forest, a shelter with Aboriginal rock art, gets its name from three emus drawn in red ochre.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Emu, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Lines
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1978
At the end of the Slade Lookout Track is "fake" engraving of an emu or waterfowl, and a lizard that is almost directly underneath the bird.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Emu, Goanna, Swamp Hen
A solitary footprint on a rock platform above the Slippery Dip Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1992
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An unusual depiction of Baiame at an Aboriginal engraving site above Cottage Point Road. The figure has two horns, and is holding a shield and a dilly bag.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Basket, Boomerang, Deity, Fish, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1894
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Aboriginal Shelter with Art (SWA) near Smiths Creek, which has multiple figures drawn in charcoal
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2017
An Aboriginal engraving site above Smiths Creek, the large rock platform has a pair of clearly-cut emus, a large fish and a shield.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Emu, Fish, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1989
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A small but interesting Aboriginal engraving site just below Cottage Point Road, with over 20 figures including two men (or deities) and two women, one of whom has caught a fish.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Club, Deity, Fish, Kangaroo, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Snake, Spear, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Three vertical Aboriginal rock engravings of fish, above Smiths Creek
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 1964