This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Club, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1974
An Aboriginal engraving site depicting a school of seven fish, towards the end of West Head Road
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
- View site sketch
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Lines
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1984
An Aboriginal engraving site with five coolamons (water containers) and an axe grinding groove near the Basin Trail
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Basket, Fish
- Year first recorded: 2017
An interesting Aboriginal engraving site in the bed of Coorrubine Creek, first documented by Ian Sim in 1969 and depicting a whale and three men.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Club, Man, Spear, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
The Corroborree Cave has five men drawn in red ochre, depicted as if dancing in a corroborree.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
The Corroborree Shelter in the McPherson State Forest has over 100 motifs, including a row of 13 human figures with upraised arms.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 132
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Boomerang, Hand, Kangaroo, Man, Shield, Snake, Woman
- Year first recorded: 1988
Two eels at a small Aboriginal engraving site which was first documented by Ian Sim in 1969. Nearby are some deep axe grinding gooves.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Eel
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a shield above the Corrumbine Creek Firetrail, in Brisbane Water National Park,
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Shield
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2020
A complex Aboriginal engraving site near Cotton Tree Creek. The figures include at least two whales and a man, as well over 40 axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Boomerang, Eel, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Man, Whale
- Year first recorded: 1984
A vertical Aboriginal engraving on Cowan Creek, depicting a line of men
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2017
An Aborginal engraving of what appears to be a man and club in a small shelter near thr Mt Ku-ring-gai Track.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: -3
- Motifs: Club, Man
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2018
Above Cowan Creek a small and remote site with a carving of a striped bandicoot, and two spirit figures.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Bandicoot, Daramulan, Deity
- Year first recorded: 2017
Hand stencils, a fishtail stencil and charcoal drawings in a smoke-damaged cave on Cowan Creek
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2018
Red ochre handprints and possible charcoal cave art in a small shelter below the Cowan Track.
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1970
A newly-discovered site in Mt Ku-ring-gai, the Crawford Road Shelter has multiple charcoal motifs.
- Quality: 3/5
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 2021
Weathered eel on top of a large boulder, near Currawong Beach
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel
- Year first recorded: 1986
- View site sketch
The Currawong Road site features a six-metre high, circumcised Daramulum figure, who is holding an axe.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Axe, Daramulan
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1944
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The Daleys Point Aboriginal Site is signposted site with pver 20 rock engavings (incuding five shales), cave paintings and axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 28
- Motifs: Bird, Fish, Hand, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Turtle, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1943
Accessible by four-wheel drive (or by walking), this deeply spiritual site is located along the Boree track and includes the spirit footprints of Biame.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 113
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Emu Track, Kangaroo, Koala, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1937
- View site sketch