This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Aboriginal rock art site with two charcoal motifs in a low overhang along a gully above the Euroka Campground.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2024
An Aboriginal rock art site on a ridge near the Euroka Campground, which contains a weathered drawing in red ochre, white drawings and at least ten hand stencils.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Emu, Hand, Man
- Year first recorded: 1981
The signposted Finchley cultural walk provides access to the Finchley Aboriginal Site, considered one of the best Aboriginal engraving sites in Australia.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Vandalised, Re-grooved
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 137
- Motifs: Baiame, Bird Track, Daramulan, Deity, Emu, Emu Track, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo Track, Koala, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1937
- View site sketch
Three Aboriginal hand stencils (two of them quite weathered) in a shelter below Finchley Campground in Yengo National Park.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2024
A number of charcoal figures, many of them wallabies or kangaroos, along the back of wall of a long shelter above Fitzerald Creek.
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Eel, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2023
A small overhang, the Flannel Flower Shelter in the McPherson State Forest has a number of Aboriginal drawings in charcoal.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1988
Four Aboriginal grinding groove sites along a series of long rock ledges near Flat Rock on the Hay Ridge
- Quality: 4/5
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 11
- Year first recorded: 1988
A small and shallow shelter with Aboriginal rock art in Mount Colah, with three weathered figures in charcoal.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man
- Year first recorded: 2023
Three Aboriginal engraving sites on vertical rock faces, to the east of Flint and Steel Beach.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 35
- Motifs: Bird, Club, Boomerang, Dingo, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Lines, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
The signposted Fremont Culture petroglyphs in Capitol Reef National Park consist of multiple rock art panels at the base of a tall cliff, accessed via a boardwalk.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bear, Kokopelli, Rabbit, Sheep
A signposted Aboriginal rock art site in Blackdown National Park, the Ghungalu Art Site is along the Goon Goon Dhina Trail. It has mostly hand stencils in red ochre.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Club, Hand
The Gibberagong Track has a signposted site with an Aboriginal engraving (of a single human figure, fish ane shield) and a number of axe-sharpening grooves.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View of site sketch
The Girrakool Aboriginal site has a carving of a man located on a rock platform along the Girrakool Loop walking track.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
A signposted Aboriginal engraving site at Glades Bay, which has eleven figures (two of which can be easily seen). Nearby are some grinding grooves.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Echidna, Kangaroo, Man, Possum, Shield, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1940
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal rock shelter in Wollemi National Park, which contains over 100 motifs, including a number of deity figures.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Axe, Boomerang, Deity, Hand
- Year first recorded: 2022
A small shelter which has very unusual Aboriginal drawings, as well as stencils. There are grinding grooves nearby.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Boomerang, Hand, Man
- Originally recorded by: Eugene Stockton
- Year first recorded: 1979
- View site sketch
Aboriginal red ochre hand stencil in a large camping cave near Goochs Crater (Blue Mountains)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
A long sandstone shelter in the MacDonald River area of Yengo NAtional Park, which has some weathered charcoal art.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1991
A complex Aboriginal engraving site in Berowra, which has eleven figures along a long rock ledge overlooking Joe Crafts Creek.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Daramulan, Deity, Echidna, Emu, Kangaroo, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
Aboriginal charcoal cave paintngs in a large shelter below the Bairne Track, at West Head.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1993