This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
The Corroborree Cave has five men drawn in red ochre, depicted as if dancing in a corroborree.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
The Corroborree Shelter in the McPherson State Forest has over 100 motifs, including a row of 13 human figures with upraised arms.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 132
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Boomerang, Hand, Kangaroo, Man, Shield, Snake, Starburst, Woman
- Year first recorded: 1988
A small Aboriginal engraving site above the Corrumbine Creek Firetrail with four eels and a small fish.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Eel, Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
Two eels at a small Aboriginal engraving site which was first documented by Ian Sim in 1969. Nearby are some deep axe grinding gooves.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Eel, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
A complex Aboriginal engraving site near Cotton Tree Creek. The figures include at least two whales and a man, as well over 40 axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Boomerang, Eel, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Man, Whale
- Year first recorded: 1984
The Coumeenoole Ogham Stone, discovered in 1838 on Dingle Peninsula, dates to the sixth century. It commemorates Erc and is accessible via a short hike from the Slea Head carpark.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Year first recorded: 1838
A vertical Aboriginal engraving on Cowan Creek, depicting a line of men
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2017
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
A complex Aboriginal engraving site in Red Hill Reserve with over 40 figures, many of them overlapping and a number of them fairly unusual.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Siltation
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 42
- Motifs: Bird Track, Dolphin, Eel, Fish, Insect, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Seal, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site in Red Hill Reserve above Cromer Valley, which has a single eel.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel
An Aboriginal engraving of a fish on a ridge above Wheeler Creek.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
Two men, a large circle and an eel next to five fish on three adjacent Aboriginal rock art sites on a ridge above Wheeler Creek.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Circle, Eel, Fish, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Bullroarer, Circle, Fish
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
A small Aboriginal engraving site above a tributary of Wheelers Creek, with a single figure revembling a speared eel.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Eel, Mundoe (foot)
A complex panel of Aboriginal charcoal art - including contact art - in a shelter high above Still Creek.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Contact Motif, Hand, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man, Sailing Ship, Turtle
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979