This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
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The Coat of Arms Cave or Koh shelter in the Canoelands area contains considerable Aboriginal rock art, with over 50 figures in red ochre, white and charcoal.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 55
- Motifs: Bird, Boomerang, Echidna, Emu, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1977
A small Aboriginal engraving 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
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An Aboriginal engraving site near Collingridge Point has three motifs and a number of axe grinding grooves - as well as non-Aboriginal dinosaur carving,
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1982
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
- 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 Coorumbine 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), Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Eel, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
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