This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Emu
- Year first recorded: 2021
A small but deep cave in Mt Ku-ring-gai has four clearly-stencilled hand prints in ochre.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1985
- View site sketch
An unusual Aboriginal engraing site in Lane Cove National Park, which contains only emu and kangaroo tracks.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Bird Track
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
- Year first recorded: 1979
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Shelter below Koolewong Ridge, which has Aboriginal charcoal art (indeterminate motifs) and a midden.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2019
Aboriginal cave art in a long shelter below the Koolewong Ridge Firetrail. There over 30 ideterminate motifs ni charcoal and ochre.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 23
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1985
A large weathered whale (over six metres in length) along the Koolewong Ridge Firetrail. It was first documented by W.D. Campbell.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A very weathered engraving of a whale and its calf, on the headland at La Perouse.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews
- Year first recorded: 1898
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The Little Beach Aboriginal engraving site has two vertical engravings, of a whale and a fish.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Whale
- Year first recorded: 1977
Aboriginal art site with dry charcoal sketches of what may be birds, in a large shelter above Flint and Steel Beach
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Bird
- Year first recorded: 1988
A small shelter below the Red Hands Track, with two handprints in red ochre, and additional stencils of what may be pieces of bark.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1964
On one of the rock platforms along the Little Moab Track is a school of (four) whales and a deity figure… the engravings are very faint and weathered and hard to make out.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Near a proposed MLALC residential development site at Lizard Rock are Aboriginal engravings of a kangaroo, and at least six mundoes (footprints)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
- Year first recorded: 1975
An Aboriginal engraving of an axe and a second indeterminate figure, near the Long Track.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Axe, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1983
An Aboriginal engraving of a macropod near the Long Track / Long Trail.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1983
A complex Aborigial engraving site across multiple adjacent platforms, which includes a very long line of footprints (mundoes) and a depiction of Baiame.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 50
- Motifs: Baiame, Boomerang, Deity, Dingo, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Seal, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Hand stencils and what may be a stencil of a boomerang in red ochre in a shallow overhang near the Long Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Hand
- Year first recorded: 1985
An Aboriginal engraving site which may represent a hunting scene, on the western side of the Long Trail
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man, Shield
- Year first recorded: 1984
- View site sketch
Long Trail Trig is an Aboriginal engraving site described as a "remarkable ceremonial group" with a deity and two composite beings.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Kangaroo, Spear
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
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The Lovers and Whales Aboriginal engraving site near the Salvation Loop Track at West Head features an enormous whale, and a copulating couple
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Bird, Man, Oval, Shield, Whale, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
- View site sketch
Below the Lovett Bay pool is a set of axe griinding grooves.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 2022