This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
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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
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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
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- 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
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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
Aboriginal rock art site with very weathered charcoal figures below Crosslands Road.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
Weathered eel on top of a large boulder, near Currawong Beach
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel
- Year first recorded: 1986
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The Currawong Road site features a six-metre high, circumcised Daramulum figure, who is holding an axe.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Axe, Daramulan, Girdle, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1944
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The Cutta Muttan Creek Shelter contains some spectacular Aboriginal rock art, including multiple human figures and a club in red ochre and over 130 hand stencils.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 145
- Motifs: Axe, Bird, Club, Hand, Man, Sunburst
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy, Warren Bluff, W.J Enright
- Year first recorded: 1893
The Da Vinci Panel, located in the Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness in Utah, is an unusual vertical panel with a petroglyph that resembles Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 22
- Motifs: Lines, Man, Snake
Documented by Warren Bluff in the 1980s, this very small overhang in an isolated boulder above Dairy Arm had five unusually coloured hand stencils.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1981
An unusual Aboriginal rock art site above Dairy Arm, which has several charcoal drawings of what may be leaves.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Plant / Twig
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1981