This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
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
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
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
Three Aboriginal engravings of indeterminate figures on a rock platform above Blackbutt Creek.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1990
Behind a row of houses is a large rock platform with a small number of engravings including fish and a kangaroo.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site below Blake Ridge (in Marramarra NP), which depicts a group of five eels.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Eel
- Year first recorded: 2021
The main engraving is a large whale, about 11m in length, with an unusually large mouth. Near the whale are two boomerangs and a small figure.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Boomerang, Man, Shield, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1892
- View site sketch
The Boat Cave (or Many Drawings Cave) has a large panel with male figures, a lizard and kangaroos.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Goanna, Kangaroo, Man, Snake
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1982
Located on a vertical rock face in the Bobbin Head Marina carpark is an engraving of a fish, mammal and goanna
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Club, Boomerang, Fish, Goanna
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A large but very weathered Aboriginal site near the Bobbin Head Trig, which represents "mythological spirit beings" and a food-getting theme.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 32
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Club, Echidna, Eel, Emu, Fish, Jellyfish, Kangaroo, Lines, Possum, Shield, Snake, Spear, Stingray, Woman, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A short side-track off the Bobbin Head Trail to a signposted Aboriginal engraving site, which has a broad range of motifs.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 37
- Motifs: Bird, Bird of Prey, Emu, Emu Track, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Possum, Quoll, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1894
- View site sketch
A small but sigificant Aboriginal engraving site in Bondi, these engravings are located within the Bondi Golf Course. Controversial re-grooving of the site in the 196os means that most of the engravings are still very distinct.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good, Re-grooved
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 66
- Motifs: Club, Boomerang, Dolphin, Fish, Man, Shark, Turtle, Whale, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1888
- View site sketch
Boomerang Cave (Apple Tree Bay) has white stencils of four hands, a boomerang and a hafted axe
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Axe, Boomerang, Hand
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
- Year first recorded: 1983