This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An enormous sandstone overhang, with a small panel of Aboriginal charcoal art on a low panel.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2020
A very long and deep shelter which has multiple panels of Aboriginal rock art, with both charcoal and red ochre motfs.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Bird, Caterpillar, Deity, Indeterminate figure, Insect, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1975
A small, low shelter with Aboriginal rock art (stencils and charcoal drawings) near Dawson Street.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 2020
An Aboriginal engraving site which has two men with head-dresses, located on a sloping rock platform along a creek in Somersby.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1976
Aboriginal engraving site with a kangaroo, eel fish and a human-like figure above Debenham Road South.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Machinery Damage, Siltation, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1980
An Aboriginal engraving above Debenham Road South of a whale; the figure is very weathered and buried under soil.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Siltation, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1980
An Aboriginal engraving site along Berowra Creek, which includes a complex figure with three superimosed motifs.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Daramulan, Deity, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1990
- View site sketch
A small Aboriginal shelter with art along Berowra Creek, which has figures in charcoal and red ochre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Man
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1990
An Aboriginal engraving site on a boulder along Berowra Creek; two fish are very distinct, and another seven figures have weathered away.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Bird, Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1961
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The Derrynablaha 15 boulder has eight cup-and-ring motifs; it's one of the easier-to-reach rock art sites in the Derrynablaha area.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Cup-and-Ring, Oval
- Year first recorded: 1963
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The Derreeny (311) rock art in the Derrynablaha area features two cup-and-rings and a faint radial line.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Cup-and-Ring
- Year first recorded: 1973
The Derreeny (321) boulder in the Derrynablaha area contains rock art which includes 31 cupmarks and several cup-and-ring motifs.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 35
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring
- Year first recorded: 1973
The Descending Sheep Petroglyph Panel along the Colorado River has been estimated to be 3,000 to 6,000 years old and interpreted as a hunting scene.
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Man, Sheep
Accessible by four-wheel drive (or by walking), this deeply spiritual site is located along the Boree track and includes the spirit footprints of Biame.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 113
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Emu Track, Kangaroo, Koala, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1937
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One of the most significant sites in the Sydney basin, Devil's Rock at Maroota has over 80 figures, including Baiame and Daramulan who are are both ends of the rock platform.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 83
- Motifs: Baiame, Bird, Boomerang, Contact Motif, Daramulan, Emu, Emu Track, Kangaroo, Kangaroo - Speared, Sailing Ship, Woman
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1894
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Aboriginal engraving and stone arrangement sites to the north-west of the main Devils Rock platform at Maroota.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 18
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Boomerang, Emu, Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot), Woman
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
Three adjacent Aboriginal engraving sites to the west of the main Devils Rock platform at Maroota, which have almost 30 figures.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 28
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Boomerang, Dingo, Emu, Fish, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1959
- View site sketch [partial]
Dingo's Lair is a significant Aboriginal rock art site in the Wollemi, which depicts a number of dingos and quolls, as well as other native fauna.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 43
- Motifs: Bird, Dingo, Emu, Hand, Man, Quoll, Turtle, Woman
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1979
Two weathered Aboriginal engravings depicting what may be a deity or cultural hero of the Daramulan type and his wife, on a rock platform along the Djarra ridge.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Daramulan, Deity, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
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An Aboriginal engraving site in Strickland State Forest, which feaures a large Daramulan figure.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Echidna, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo - Speared, Koala, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1945
- View site sketch