This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
The Boomerang Headed Men Cave has a number of kangaroos and men drawn in white and red ochre. Many of the Aboriginal rock art motifs are quite weathered.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
A significant site near Bulgandry in Kariong: "The whole group is particularly well drawn, and presents one of the best samples of this native art that the Writer has met with"
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 60
- Motifs: Bird, Club, Caterpillar, Child, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Rat, Man, Oval, Stingray, Swamp Hen, Turtle, Whale, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
The Bulgandry Art Site Aboriginal Place is one of the most-visited engraving sites around Sydney. It's named after the prominent Bulgandry Man engraving.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 28
- Motifs: Bird, Canoe, Dolphin, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Octopus, Oval, Shark, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
- View site sketch (main site)
Partly covered by silt, an Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo is on a small outcrop with a view of Mount Wondabyne.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
- View site sketch
Carvings of two kangaroos, one of which was described by W.D. Campbell as having a spear in its back.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A significant Aboriginal site, which would have been of great importance in the ritual and mythology of the local tribe. The site includes cave art in different pigments dating over six periods, rock engravings and axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 130
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Axe, Bird, Club, Boomerang, Crescent, Daramulan, Deity, Echidna, Eel, Emu, Hand, Kangaroo, Koala, Man, Oval, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg, Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1961
- View site sketch – shelter art / rock engravings
A small and somewhat unusual Aboriginal cave painting site, in a shelter at the base of a tall cliff near the significant Canoelands 1 site.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1980
Vertical Axe Grinding Grooves (AGGs) on a large sandstone boulder.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2012
An Aboriginal engraving site next to the Centre Trail, which includes three figures, two shields and a large fish.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Echidna, Fish, Man, Shield
- Year first recorded: 1983
- View site sketch
A line leading north-south of (approximately) ten mundoes near the Centre Trail
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 1978
The Challenger Snake is an Aboriginal engraving of a faint and weathered snake, near the Challenger Track.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Snake
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1898
Red ochre Aboriginal hand stencils and what may be charcoal art in a shelter below the Challenger Track.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1993
Water hole with a pecked water channel on a rock ledge below the Challenger Track (West Head).
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1994
Multiple white hand stencils and charcoal art in a tall but shallow shelter.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin, Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1989
Aboriginal cave paintings of a large anthropormophic figure and other motifs in a large shelter, near Cliff Oval.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame
- Year first recorded: 1988
- View site sketch
A small but complex Aboriginal engraving site above Coal and Candle Creek (West Head). It has 66 motifs, including 27 mundoes, and axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 66
- Motifs: Bird, Echidna, Eel, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1940
- View site sketch
A small Aboriginal engracing site with a kangaroo and Daramulan figure, on a small rock platform near the Coba Ridge in Marramarra National Park.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Daramulan, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 1977
A scarred tree along the Neverfail Fire Trail (Coba Ridge) in Marramarra National Park.
- Site condition: Good
- Scarred Tree
- Year first recorded: 2019
A partly damaged Aboriginal engraving of a fish, along the track to Taffys Rock.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
A large rock located in the Lane Cove National Park, which has both Aboriginal and European engravings.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Boomerang, Crescent
- Year first recorded: 1990
- View site sketch