This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
- View site sketch
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
An emu and three (or four) mundoes on a boulder near Duckponds Ridge, in Marramarra National Park.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Emu, Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal rock engraving site near Duckponds Ridge, which has a long line of mundoes, three emus and some other unusual figures.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Emu, Indeterminate figure, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1983
A scarred tree near Duckponds Ridge in Marramarra Narional Park.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Scarred Tree
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 2016
Aboriginal cave paintings including a kangaro, two birds and some indeterrminate charcoal figures in a shelter above Marramarra Creek.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1996
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
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal art site with weathered charcoal figures below Dusthole Ridge.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
- Year first recorded: 1981
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An Aboriginal engraving site in Muogamarra Nature Reserve, which has a single carving of a whale.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
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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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Two Aboriginal engravings on Elephant Rock near Patonga, including an intriguing carving of an ant, spider or "indeterminate bag-like object"...
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Ant, Head, Indeterminate figure, Spider
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
An Aboriginal engraving of a male figure on a long rock platform near Elephant Rock.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 2018
Faint charcoal art in a low shelter above Ellem Gully, in McPherson State Forest
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Re-grooved
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2023
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
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
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
Emu Cave (also known as Shearwoods Cave) has hundred of emu prints carved into the western wall, and axe grinding grooves above the shelter.
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 100
- Motifs: Bird Track
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1871
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
An Aboriginal engraving of a fish, near the Euro Trig at West Head.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017