This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
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
An Aboriginal engraving site near Dog Trap Road which features a prominent Daramulan figure and a smaller deity.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Daramulan, Deity, Kangaroo, Koala
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch – Daramulan
A long rock ledge near Dog Trap Road, which has 30 grinding grooves and eight mundoes.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1980
Aboriginal rock engraving of a large dolphin (3m in length) below the Challenger Track.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Dolphin
- Year first recorded: 1987
An Aboriginal engraving of a deity (Daramulan) figure near the Duckholes Trail.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Deity, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engravings of a large macropod and two smaller figures near the Duckholes Trail.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2021
An emu and three (or four) mundoes on a boulder near Duckponds Ridge, in Marramarra National Park.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Emu, Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal rock engraving site near Duckponds Ridge, which has a long line of mundoes, three emus and some other unusual figures.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Emu, Indeterminate figure, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1983
A scarred tree near Duckponds Ridge in Marramarra Narional Park.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Scarred Tree
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 2016
Aboriginal cave paintings including a kangaro, two birds and some indeterrminate charcoal figures in a shelter above Marramarra Creek.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1996
An Aboriginal engraving of a Daramulan figure in Duffys Forest.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Daramulan, Deity
- Year first recorded: 2022