Indigenous Site Search

This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.

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Fish at Bobbin Head Marina

Bobbin Head Marina

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
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Bobbin Head Track (lower site)

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
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Bobbin Head Track (main site)

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
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Bondi Golf Course Aboriginal Site (Murriverie)

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
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Bulgandry 2 (Brisbane Water)

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
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Bulgandry Aboriginal Site

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)