This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Eight axe grinding grooves around a small pothole along a creek bed in Duffys Forest.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2022
A single, isolated grinding groove along a mostly dry creek bed in Duffys Forest.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2022
Two water holes along a creek in Duffys Forest, which have two grinding grooves and water channels.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Water Hole
- Year first recorded: 2022
A long shelter in Duffys Forest with Aboriginal rock art, including over ten hand stencils as well as charcoal drawings.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 18
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2022
An intriguing Aboriginal site in Duffys Forest, which has a snake engraving, axe grinding grooves and a pecked channel.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Snake
- Year first recorded: 2022
Three axe grinding grooves next to three water holes along a creek in Duffys Forest.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2022
An Aboriginal art site with weathered charcoal figures below Dusthole Ridge.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
- Year first recorded: 1981
- View site sketch
One of the most significant Aboriginal rock art sites in Australia, Eagles Reach in the Wollemi National Park contains 206 motifs which are thought to be up to 4,000-6,000 years old. The site includes many unusual motifs, including a mythical eagle-like creature.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 205
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Axe, Baiame, Bird, Bird of Prey, Club, Boomerang, Deity, Eagle, Emu, Feather, Goanna, Grid, Hand, Kangaroo, Man, Therianthrope, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: Wollemi Rock Art Project
- Year first recorded: 2003
An Aboriginal shelter with art above the Eastern Commission Trail in Lower Mangrove, which has 18 hand stencils.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 18
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1988
An Aboriginal engraving site in Muogamarra Nature Reserve, which has a single carving of a whale.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
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A clearly engraved site, featuring a detailed carving of an echidna and a very long line of mundoes (footprints).
- Quality: 4/5
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 87
- Motifs: Echidna, Fish, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1965
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Two echidnas and what has been described as a snake are located on a rock platform close to Mona Vale Road.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Echidna, Mundoe (foot), Snake
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
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A partly damaged Aboriginal engraving of a fish, along the track to Taffys Rock.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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Two Aboriginal engravings on Elephant Rock near Patonga, including an intriguing carving of an ant, spider or "indeterminate bag-like object"...
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Ant, Head, Indeterminate figure, Spider
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1966
An Aboriginal engraving of a male figure on a long rock platform near Elephant Rock.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 2018
Faint charcoal art in a low shelter above Ellem Gully, in McPherson State Forest
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Re-grooved
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2023
The Ellis Trig North site at Cottage Point has three boomerangs, a bullroarer and a pierced seal.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Boomerang, Seal
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
The Elvina Aboriginal Site is easily accessed from the Elvina Bay Track at West Head. This significant site contains over 50 figures, including an enormous six metre high deity figure.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 56
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Boomerang, Daramulan, Deity, Eel, Emu, Fish, Goanna, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Koala, Man, Oval, Serpent, Shield, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
- View site sketch
Axe grinding groves and remarkably well-preserved engravings of two fish alongside Hominy Creek near Emerald Pool
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1996
Emu Cave (also known as Shearwoods Cave) has hundred of emu prints carved into the western wall, and axe grinding grooves above the shelter.
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 100
- Motifs: Bird Track
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1871