This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
Aboriginal engraving sites located near the Cowan to Brooklyn (Great North Walk) trail. Some of these sites were documented over a hundred year ago by W.D. Campbell, and others only recently "discovered".
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 33
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Eel, Fish, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 1899
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
Single hand stencil in a deep sandstone shelter below the D'Arcy Range Trail in the Wollemi National Park
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Mark Roebuck
- Year first recorded: 2022
Charcoal and red ochre paintings are inside this shelter in the D'Arcy Range. Above the shelter are axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2022
Multiple charcoal drawiings at the base of a tall sandstone overhang in the D'Arcy Range.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2018
A wide and deep shelter in the D'Arcy Range has multiple charcoal drawiings at the base.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2018
Two axe grinding grooves along an unnamed creek in the D'Arcy Range
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2022
The Descending Sheep Petroglyph Panel along the Colorado River has been estimated to be 3,000 to 6,000 years old and interpreted as a hunting scene.
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Man, Sheep
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
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
- View site sketch
Two weathered Aboriginal engravings depicting what may be a deity or cultural hero of the Daramulan type and his wife, on a rock platform along the Djarra ridge.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Daramulan, Deity, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site in Strickland State Forest, which feaures a large Daramulan figure.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Echidna, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Koala, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1945
- View site sketch
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