This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
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