This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Shelter in Twin Creeks Reserve with cave paintings in red ochre and multiple hand stencils
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1989
Four axe grinding grooves and an engraved water channel, in a small pool just above the Two Creeks Track.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Water Hole
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
- Year first recorded: 1990
Twyfelfontein is a significant, UNESCO listed World Heritage rock art site in Namibia. The site has over 2,000 motifs from 6,000 years ago, left by the Wilton stone age culture group and later by Khoikhoi (San people or Bushmen).
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 2000
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Foot, Giraffe, Hand, Horse, Impala, Lion, Man, Oryx, Ostrich, Rhinoceros, Seal
- Year first recorded: 1975
A shelter with Aboriginal rock art above the upper reaches of Mullet Creek, which has a number of motifs. As well as hand stencils, there are figures drawn in charcoal and red ochre.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Emu, Hand, Indeterminate figure, Shield
- Year first recorded: 2020
A vertical Aboriginal rock engraving on Smiths Creek, with a frieze containing eleven figures, and an adjacent site with five mundoes
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Child, Fish, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Aboriginal engraving of a wallaby on a small rock, above Smith Creek
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A large shelter in Popran National Park, the Upside Down Man Cave has over 274 motifs, representing three engraving types.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 280
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Echidna, Eel, Fish, Hand, Kangaroo, Man, Snake
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1992
Multiple panels of Native American rock art high above Utah Scenic Byway 279 (Potash Road) in Utah
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 120
- Motifs: Bear, Indeterminate figure, Man, Sheep
A weathered Aboriginal engraving on rock platform just off the Van Dahls Firetrail in Patonga.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2018
Recorded during a field survey conducted prior to the construction of the Sydney to Newcastle freeway through Cowan, this Aboriginal engraving site was determined as being of significant anthropological significance.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 35
- Motifs: Club, Echidna, Man, Mundoe (foot), Woman
- Year first recorded: 1960
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A "fishing scene" near the Wallaroo Track, which includes a woman, fish and boomerang.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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An intriguing Aboriginal engraving site near the Wallaroo Track, with five men (in two groups) as well as a number of other figures including boomerangs and mundoes.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Boomerang, Crescent, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1988
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Aboriginal engraving site which has a set of axe grinding grooves next to a waterhole, and three engraved figures. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Club, Echidna, Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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An Aboriginal rock enrgraving site below the Waratah Track, described as depicting a successful emu hunt,
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Emu, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
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An Aboriginal engraving site on a spur beneath the Waratah Track, which may illustrate a fishing scene.
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Fish, Man, Shield, Stingray, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
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Two potholes with a deep channel around them and two axe grinding grooves along a steep ledge. A short distance away are engravings of a shield and fish (not found).
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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Aboriginal engraving site which represents a man with fish which are his totem (or which he hopes to catch) near the Waratah Track. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Fish, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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Aboriginal engraving of a man and woman near Waratah Track. (Part of Arden Trig series.)
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A cerermonial or ritual Aboriginal engraving site below the Waratah Track, with a decorated man and woman, whale and many fish.
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Fish, Man, Whale, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
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Aboriginal engraving of an "unusual pair of human figures" near the Waratah Track. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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