This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Very weathered Aboriginal rock engravings of a kangaroo and an indeterminate object on a rock platform next to the Calabash Trail.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2012
Weathered Aboriginal engravings on a rock platform next to the Calabash Trail, including an eel-like figure.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Eel, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
Aboriginal engraving site above the Caleyi Trail, which has a single kangaroo and a very weathered fish,
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1984
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
An Aboriginal engraving site above Campbell Creek, depicting two men, fish and a shield, in what may be a fishing scene.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 1899
Canoelands is one of the most significant Aboriginal sites around Sydney, and 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
The Canoelands 2 Aboriginal site has about 50 motifs in charcoal, yellow and red ochre, including a large kangaroo and many hand stencils. Nearby are three axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 50
- Motifs: Baiame, Hand, Kangaroo, Lines, Possum
- Year first recorded: 1981
- View site sketch
Rock outcrop in Canoelands (Marramarra NP) with a kangaroo, emu and fish engravings.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Emu, Fish, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 2001
Weathered charcoal and red ochre Aboriginal drawings in a small shelter in Canoelands (Marramarra NP)
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Basket, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
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
A mundoe is on a small rock in front of a low shelter, which contains some very weathered Aboriginal cave art.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Foot, Indeterminate figure, Man, Octopus
- Year first recorded: 1956
A small shelter in Canoelands, which contains several charcoal and one white painting. Nearby is a grooved water channel.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2016
Vertical Axe Grinding Grooves (AGGs) on a large sandstone boulder.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2012
A recently "discovered" shelter with Aboriginal rock art, just outside the Wollemi National Park. The shelter has over a hundred hand stencils.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 111
- Motifs: Club, Hand
- Year first recorded: 2019
Located near Kolob Terrace Road, the Cave Valley Pictographs have over 20 motifs in white, yellow, red and black pigment. This site is now CLOSED to the public.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 25
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Indeterminate figure, Man, Sheep
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
Aboriginal rock carving of a kangaroo in the middle of the Centre Trail at West Head.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
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