This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
- View site sketch
A complex Aboriginal rock art site near the Euro Trig, which features s whale surrounded by fish, shields and a wallaby. (Also called the Basin Whale site.)
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- 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: 1899
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
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
A small and shallow shelter with Aboriginal rock art in Mount Colah, with three weathered figures in charcoal.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man
- Year first recorded: 2023
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, Dingo, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Lines, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
The signposted Fremont Culture petroglyphs in Capitol Reef National Park consist of multiple rock art panels at the base of a tall cliff, accessed via a boardwalk.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bear, Kokopelli, Rabbit, Sheep
A signposted Aboriginal rock art site in Blackdown National Park, the Ghungalu Art Site is along the Goon Goon Dhina Trail. It has mostly hand stencils in red ochre.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Club, Hand
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
An Aboriginal rock shelter in Wollemi National, which contain over 40 motifs, including a number of deity figures.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Axe, Boomerang, Deity, Hand
- Year first recorded: 2022
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
A long sandstone shelter in the MacDonald River area of Yengo NAtional Park, which has some weathered charcoal art.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1991
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
The Great Mackerel Shelter (SWA 1) above Great Mackerel Beach was extensively researched in the 1980s and 1990s. It has over 100 motifs including hand stencils in white and red ochre, and paintings.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 114
- Motifs: Boomerang, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
Great Mackerel Shelter with Art (SWA) 2 has fifteen hand stencils in red ochre, on a cliff above Great Mackerel Beach
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
Great Mackerel Shelter with Art (SWA) 3 has two partial hand stencils, on a cliff above Great Mackerel Beach
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal engraving site above Green Point Creek near Pearl Beach, which has very weathered carvings.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Oval, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1995
Located along the popular Spit to Manly bushwalk, the Grotto Point Aboriginal Site included boomerangs, fish, sharks and a large kangaroo. The engravings are about 1,000 years old and have interpretative signage.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 17
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Track, Oval, Shark, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A significant Aboriginal rock engraving site in Allambie Heights, Gumbooya Reserve has 70 figures (many very weathered or no longer visible) in three groups.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 70
- Motifs: Cat, Club, Dolphin, Echidna, Eel, Fish, Fishing Line, Man, Oval, Seed Pod, Shark, Shield, Snake, Thylacine, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch