This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
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
Three or four axe grinding grooves on small sandstone platform, near the Bowen Hill Trail
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2023
An Aboriginal rock art site with two charcoal figures in a small shelter near the Bowen Hill Trail in the Wollemi NP.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2023
An Aborginal rock art site above the Bowen Hill Trail, which has a wallaby/kangaroo, emu and a pair of emu tracks.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Emu, Emu Track, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2023
An Aboriginal engraving of a woman with upstretched arms, on a small and isolated rock platform.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Woman
- Year first recorded: 2019
Above a small waterfall near Brooklyn Dam are Aboriginal engravings of a fish and wallaby (or kangaroo), and some water channels in the creek bed.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1979
A long rock platform near the Brooklyn Dam is an Aboriginal engraving site, with over 20 figures. Many were recorded by McCarthy in 1958.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
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