This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Sandstone shelter along Smiths Creek with three fish drawn in charcoal.
- Quality: 4/5
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1943
An Aboriginal engraving of a goanna or lizard, just below Cottage Point Road
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Goanna
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Three very distinct Aboriginal hand stencils and a fish in red ochre, on rock overhangs along Smiths Creek
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Fish, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Deep shelter above Smiths Creek, with Aboriginal cave art (two men painted in red ochre)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
Shelter near Smiths Creek, which has a charcoal drawing of a snake
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Snake
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
A significant Aboriginal engraving site at Cottage Point, with two deity (Baiame) figures. Both have a rayed headress and vertical stripes on their bodies.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A large number of axe grinding grooves, in and around the creek above Somersby Falls.
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1974
An enormous shelter named from it's location near The Sphinx, this site has 91 motifs including charcoal paintings and hand stencils.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 91
- Motifs: Deity, Hand, Kangaroo, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews
- Year first recorded: 1896
A significant Aboriginal rock art site in the MacDonald River district, Spirits Cave was extensively documented by Ian Sim. The shelter contains 186 motifs, including multiple deity figures and what was thought to be a Rainbow Serpent.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 186
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Axe, Bird, Club, Boomerang, Deity, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Hand, Kangaroo, Lyrebird, Man, Owl, Rainbow Serpent, Snake, Turtle, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
Spirits Rock is a signposted Aboriginal engraving site at the end of the Cowan Trail, which has a number of figures, including a large and detailed engraving of the Baiame deity.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Baiame, Boomerang, Deity, Fish, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
- View site sketch
Next to the Pacific Motorway (M1), the Spring Gully (or Cockle Creek) site has 83 engraved figures across multiple locations.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 97
- Motifs: Bird, Boomerang, Echidna, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Stingray, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1959
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A small shelter with multiple red hand stencils in North Wahroonga
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1979
Water channels that appear to be of Aboriginal origin, below the STEP Track in South Turramurra.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Water Hole
- Year first recorded: 2021
Located in the Monument Valley and accessible on a Navajo tour, the Anasazi Suns Eye petroglyph site features a number of bighorn sheep.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Sheep
This sacred cave depicts generations of markings and drawings, with 857 motifs (mainly handprints) – the largest assemblage of motifs of any currently known sites.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 857
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Boomerang, Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1978
An Aboriginal engraving of a deity (probably Baiame) on a large rock platform below the Taber trig station
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a man or deity on a large rock platform below the Taber trig station.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engraving of a seal, sea lion or dugong, near the edge of a large rock platform below Taber Trig
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Fish, Seal
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A long and deep shelter near the Taber Trig, with charcoal drawings (documented by Campbell) and red hand stencils
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
A small Aboriginal engraving site west of Taber Trig. Figures include a kangaroo, fih and six mundoes,
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot), Oval
- Year first recorded: 1975