This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Two echidnas and a leaping wallaby on a rok platform near the Waratah Track,
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Echidna, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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A small Aboriginal engraving site in thick scrub, which includes a fsh and an emu in an unusual pose.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Emu, Fish, Lines
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
An interesting-looking Aboriginal engraving (most recently described as a gecko) on a ridge off the Waratah Track
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1976
A fish with a hook inside its body near the Waratah Track (part of a series of Aboriginal engravings).
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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Described as a "sacred site for whales", this large Aboriginal engraving stie near the Waratah Track includes two whales (one with a man inside it) and a deity figure.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Emu, Man, Shield, Turtle, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A clearly defined decorated shield and boomerang near the Waratah Track
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Boomerang, Mundoe (foot), Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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A fish and sword club in thick scrub near the Waratah Track (part of the Arden Trig series of Aboriginal engravings).
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Club, Fish
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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An Aboriginal engraving site just below the Waratah Trail surrounded by thick scrub, which has an enormous whale
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Oval, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A series of six Aboriginal engraving sites within the Warrah Sanctuary (now Brisbane Water National Park) which were documented by McCarthy.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 25
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
An Aboriginal engraving of a man with upstretched hands on a sloping rock platform; nearby are three mundoes and some unfinished figures.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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An Aboriginal engraving site with a small man, who has a curved line running from his ankle. It's part of the Warrah Sanctuary group.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Lines, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
An Aboriginal engraving of an enormous whale (8 metres in length) which appears to be blowing bubbles. The site is part of the Warrah Sanctuary group.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Fish, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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A series of Aboriginal engraving sites along the cliff between Patonga and Warrah Lookout. Over 30 figures, which include a number of men, animals and bird tracks.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 39
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1954
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An Aboriginal engraving of a single, broad fish on a small rock platform between Warrah Trig Road and Patonga Drive.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
Two Aboriginal engravings of fish (and axe grinding grooves) on a rock platform below the Warrah Trig Road
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
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Weathered Aboriginal engravings on a tesselated platform near Warrah Trig. Figures include a speared fish.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1995
Stone or rock circles in the Warre Warren Aboriginal Place typically indicate nearby ceremonial places or sites.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stone circle
- Year first recorded: 2021
The Warrimoo Track Shelter is a long cave with a dozen hand stencils along the back wall, and a large midden below the cave.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
Very weathered site with an unusual feathered emu, as well as multiple kangaroos and axe grinding grooves
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Dingo, Emu, Kangaroo, Oval, Snake
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1958
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Washtub Gully near Berowra Waters has a number of Aboriginal engravings in a creek bed
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 26
- Motifs: Bird, Fish, Lines, Numbat, Possum, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1944
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