This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An extensively vandalised site along Coolana Brook, there is no longer any evidence of the 30 Aboriginal rock art motifs documented here in the 1970s.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Vandalised
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 30
- Year first recorded: 1977
A boulder with rock art near Lake Coomasaharn which has a cup with two rings and three small cup motifs.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Cup-and-Ring
- Year first recorded: 2018
An interesting Aboriginal engraving site in the bed of Coorumbine Creek, first documented by Ian Sim in 1969 and depicting a whale and three men.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Club, Man, Man Inside Whale, Spear, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
The Corr Aille Spiral is a Bronze Age rock art site along a pre-Christian pilgrimage route on the Dingle peninsula. It has a single spiral or "cup and ring" motif.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Cup-and-Ring
- Year first recorded: 2011
A long shelter below Corrabare Road with Aboriginal rock art, including two eels in red ochre and a hand stencil.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Eel, Hand, Indeterminate figure, Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1997
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, Sunburst, Woman
- Year first recorded: 1988
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
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 shelter at the base of cliffs near Cottage Rock at West Head, which has a number of Aboriginal hand stencils.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2019
Very faded red ochre drawings in a shelter above Cottage Rock at West Head.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2019
A shallow overhang along a ridge above Cottage Rock, which has a single red ochre Aboriginal hand stencil.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2026
A large occupation and rock art shelter near Cottage Rock at West Head, with a single hand stencil.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2019
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