This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Numerous engraving and cave art sites along the Basin Track and Mackerel Track. Many are hidden just off the trails, but the signposted Basin Aboriginal Site is easily accessed.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 270
- Motifs: Basket, Boomerang, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Moon, Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
A small Aboriginal engraving site near the start of the Basin Trail, with a single fish
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 2017
Faint hand stencils in a low rock shelter above the Euro Track.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A small Aboriginal engraving site near the start of the Basin Trail, with a single eel
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A shark, two eels and large fish (originally thought to be a koala) on a rock platform in a valley above The Basin
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Shark
- Year first recorded: 1993
- View site sketch
A set of axe grinding grooves (AGG) along the creek, near the Basin Track.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
The Basin Track Ray is a deeply cut, distinct Aboriginal engravng described as an “indeterminate figure”.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1980
- View site sketch
Speared shark (partly damaged) above the Basin Track on a low rock platform.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Partially Destroyed
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Shark
- Year first recorded: 1961
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Along the Basin Track is a fairly deeply-cut stingray (or skate), on a small rock surrounded by dense scrub.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Stingray
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a single fish next to the Basin Trail.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1983
A small Aboriginal engraving engraving site next to the Basin Trail, with man and snake
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man, Snake
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A signposted site on Kings Tableland, Battleship Tops is known for its unusual rock formations - but is also an Aboriginal rock art site. Although badly damaged, traces of red ochre figures can be seen.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Fire damage, Graffiti damage, Vandalised
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Emu, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1970
An Aboriginal engraving of a turtle at Ben Buckler Point - the only remaining figure from a small site which had five carvings.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Partially Destroyed, Re-grooved
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Eel, Shield, Snake, Turtle, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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An unusual Aboriginal engraving site on a vertical rock surface, which includes a Baiame and Daramulan figure.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Baiame, Child, Daramulan
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, Stanbury and Clegg, Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1895
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A very weathered Aboriginal engraving of an eel (and axe grinding grooves) above a waterfall near the Berkeley Trail
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Eel
- Year first recorded: 1975
Wide and deep shelter above Berowra Creek, which has an Aboriginal hand stencil and charcoal drawings.
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Motifs: Eel, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2021
Single mundoe next to Berowra Track (Apple Tree Bay)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 2001
A long rock shelter near Franks Gully in the Berowra Valley National Park contains a number of cave paintings, and a shield engraved above the cave
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Possum, Shield, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1984
- View site sketch
The Big Man, Small Man Aboriginal engraving site has three male figures. The largest is over six metres high, and the smallest just over a metre.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
- View site sketch
The Birthing Panel or Birthing Rock petroglyph site is a large boulder covered on all sides by Native American rock art. The petroglyphs span three different periods spanning 2,000 years.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 80
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Man, Mundoe (foot), Sheep, Snake, Woman