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 man and a "composite emu spirit figure"; it's one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Man, Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
The area around Lyre Trig has over twenty Aboriginal engraving sites, many recorded by Campbell, Sim and McCarthy and some containing unusual carvings.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 99
- Motifs: Bird, Deity, Eel, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Oval, Shark, Shield, Snake
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
An Aboriginal engraving of a single fish; one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
A large Aboriiginal engraving of a kangaroo near the Lyre Trig Track; possibly a mytholigical figure due to its size.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A complex and likely Aboriginal engraving significant site below the Lyre Trig in Kariong. The site has over sixty figures and axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 59
- Motifs: Club, Boomerang, Dolphin, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Koala, Man, Oval, Shark, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An interesting Aboriginal engraving site which has 14 figures, including a marine creature (which could be a shark), a snake and an indeterminate animal. It's one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shark, Snake
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
Two very weathered wallabies near the Lyre Trig Firetrail.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal engraving of a single wallaby, which is fairly weathed; it's one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
A man (fairly weathered) south of the Mackerel Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Single fish near Mackerel Track, on a rock platform surrounded by thick scrub
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Three weathered shields and another figure on a small rock platform, near the Mackerel Trail
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Shield
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A whale and bird engraving, and number of “stone circles” formed by thousands of small pebbles arranged in neat circles.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Ibis, Lines, Oval, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a man peeing in a waterhole, some hands and fish on a small rock platform below West Head Road.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Fish, Hand, Man
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A quite clearly defined kangaroo, and some smaller engravings, next to the Max Allen Track on a small rock
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Re-grooved
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Bird Track, Fish, Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
- View site sketch
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
An Aboriginal engraving site near McCarrs Creek Road with two shields, a kangaroo and a boomerang, as well as grooved water channels.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Boomerang, Kangaroo, Shield
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 1978
One of two shelters with art (SWA) above McCarrs Creek, which has a large number of hand stencils in red ochre.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2007
One of two shelters with art (SWA) above McCarrs Creek, which has a large number of negative and positive hand prints in red ochre.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2007
A shelter with spectacular Aboriginal drawings in the McPherson State Forest. Figures include snakes, macropods and an echidna in charcoal, red ochre and white ochre.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 39
- Motifs: Basket, Echidna, Kangaroo, Snake, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1993
A number of Aboriginal axe grinding grooves at the base of a waterfall, near MIdde Harbour Creek
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2021