This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Shelter with a single Aboriginal charcoal drawing in Taffys Gully.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An Aboriginal engraving site on a low saddle along the track to Taffys Rock, which has two whales and a wallaby.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A shelter near the Terraborra North Ridge, which has multiple charcoal figures (including two kangaroos)
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
- Year first recorded: 2019
A shelter below a weathered cliff-line near the Terraborra North Ridge has figures in both charcoal and white.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2019
A spectacular Aboriginal rock art site near the Terraborra North Ridge, with a long panel containing over 30 charcoal figures.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 36
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Indeterminate figure, Man, Woman
- Year first recorded: 2019
Two adjoining Aboriginal engraving sites near the Terraborra North Trail, depicting an emu, bird and anthropomorphic figure.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Elk, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
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The Hunting Site and Lyrebird Site are two Aboriginal engraving sites in Terrey Hills, One represents a hunting scene, and the other is named after an engraving of a lyrebird.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 46
- Motifs: Bird Track, Boomerang, Deer, Echidna, Kangaroo, Lines, Lyrebird, Man, Mundoe (foot), Possum, Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1941
An small Aboriginal engraving site depicting a hunter and his two wives celebrating a successful kangaroo hunt.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1941
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The Lyrebird Site in Larool Reserve (Terrey Hills) features an engraving of a lyrebird, as well as many other animal carvings.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 31
- Motifs: Bird Track, Boomerang, Echidna, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Lyrebird, Possum, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1941
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Pictographs and petroglyphs dated up to several thousand years old are located at the base of one of The Chimneys
- Quality: 5/5
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Lines
Among the many Aboriginal engraving sites around Cottage Point are a number which depict Baiame, a deity figure and ancestral hero of the Aboriginal people.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 47
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Deity, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
A small Aboriginal rock art shelter, which contains a few areas painted in red ochre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1978
Inside one of a series of three sandstone shelters along a low cliff-line are some Aboriginal charcoal drawings. The site also has six axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1978
A low but long shelter with Aboriginal rock art along Ellem Gully, which has over 100 motifs in charcoal and red ochre. The figures include many kangaroos and some hand stencils.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 126
- Motifs: Boomerang, Deity, Echidna, Hand, Man, Shield, Snake, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1988
Most likely representing an emu hunt, the Ticehurst Park Aboriginal engraving site in Faulconbridge has three very distinct emu carvings, as well as six mundoes (footprints) and a number of axe grinding grooves.
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Emu, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
- View site sketch
A single figure drawn in red ochre, in a remote shelter in the Tollagong Range.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Year first recorded: 2022
An isolated rock shelter west of Box Tree Clearing Trail has about 15 Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre along the rear wall.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2004
Multiple Aboriginal stencils and an drawing of an eel (showing endoskeleton) in the Tollagong Range.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 22
- Motifs: Axe, Eel, Hand
- Year first recorded: 2022
A long shelter with a panel of Aboriginal rock art, above Tootie Creek in the Wollemi National Park.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 28
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Man
- Originally recorded by: Mark Roebuck
- Year first recorded: 2022
Aboriginal engraving of a bulbous headed club on Topham Hill
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Club
- Year first recorded: 2021