This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
One of the most significant sites in the Sydney bason, Devil's Rock has over 67 figures, including Baiame and Daramulan who are are both ends of the rock platform.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 83
- Motifs: Baiame, Bird, Boomerang, Daramulan, Emu, Kangaroo, Sailing Ship, Woman
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1894
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Aboriginal rock engraving of a large dolphin (3m in length) below the Challenger Track.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Dolphin
- Year first recorded: 1987
An Aboriginal engraving of a deity (Daramulan) figure near the Duckholes Trail.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Deity
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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Aboriginal engravings of a large macropod and two smaller figures near the Duckholes Trail.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2021
Little Devils Rock at Maroota has a number of weathered engravings, including Baiame, right next to the Old Northern Road.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Baiame, Koala, Man
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1897
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A clearly engraved site, featuring a detailed carving of an echidna and a very long line of mundoes (footprints).
- Quality: 4/5
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 87
- Motifs: Echidna, Fish, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1965
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Two echidnas and what has been described as a snake are located on a rock platform close to Mona Vale Road.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Echidna, Mundoe (foot), Snake
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
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The Ellis Trig North site at Cottage Point has three boomerangs, a bullroarer and a pierced seal.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Boomerang, Seal
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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The Elvina Aboriginal Site is easily accessed from the Elvina Track at West Head. This significant site contains over 50 figures, including an enormous six metrs high deity figure.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 56
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Boomerang, Daramulan, Deity, Eel, Emu, Fish, Goanna, Koala, Man, Oval, Shield, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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Axe grinding groves and remarkably well-preserved engravings of two fish alongside Hominy Creek near Emerald Pool
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1996
Mundoes on a long rock platform above the Euro Track.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Two shield and eleven mundoes (all weathered) that were said to represent a hunting scene
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot), Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A complex site near the Euro Trig, with a whale at the centrem surrounded by fish, shields and a wallaby.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 42
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot), Shark, Shield, Turtle, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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The signposted Finchley cultural walk provides access to the Finchley Aboriginal Site, considered one of the best Aboriginal engraving sites in Australia.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 137
- Motifs: Bird Track, Daramulan, Emu, Emu Track, Koala, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
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A small overhang, the Flannel Flower Shelter in the McPherson State Forest has a number of Aboriginal drawings in charcoal.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1988
Three Aboriginal engraving sites on vertical rock faces, to the east of Flint and Steel Beach.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 35
- Motifs: Bird, Club, Boomerang, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Lines, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
The Gibberagong Track has a signposted site with an Aboriginal engraving (of a single human figure, fish ane shield) and a number of axe-sharpening grooves.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View of site sketch
The Girrakool Aboriginal site has a carving of a man located on a rock platform along the Girrakool Loop walking track.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
Aboriginal red ochre hand stencil in a large camping cave near Goochs Crater (Blue Mountains)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
Aboriginal charcoal cave paintngs in a large shelter below the Bairne Track, at West Head.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1993