This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A set of Aboriginal grinding grooves in a creek above Glenbrook Creek. Nearby is a charcoal figure drawn on shallow shelter in a low cliff-line.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1975
Multiple petroglyph sites at the base of a long cliff-line and isolated boulders along the Santa Clara River.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 90
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Elk, Indeterminate figure, Man, Sheep
Mundoes on a long rock platform above the Euro Track.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
An Aboriginal engraving of a fish, near the Euro Trig at West Head.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Two shield and eleven mundoes (all weathered) that were said to represent a hunting scene
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot), Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A complex Aboriginal rock art site near the Euro Trig, which features s whale surrounded by fish, shields and a wallaby. (Also called the Basin Whale site.)
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 42
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot), Shark, Shield, Turtle, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
Four scarred or burial trees near the Euroka Campground in Glenbrook.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Scarred Tree
- Year first recorded: 2005
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 small shelter with Aboriginal art near the Finchley Campground; it has three white outline figures on the ceiling.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2020
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
Largely damaged by graffiti and vandalism, this rock art site in Mosman was first documented in the 1890s. Only a large figure in red ochre is still visible.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Vandalised
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews
- Year first recorded: 1985
- View site sketch
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
A series of 13 Aboriginal engraving sites which form part of the Flat Rocks Ridge Dharug ceremonial ground. First documented in 1895, the Flat Rocks area has over 350 figures including many significant ancestral spirits.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 369
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Bird, Club, Circle, Deity, Dingo, Echidna, Emu, Emu Track, Goanna, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Track, Koala, Man, Moon, Possum, Shield, Snake, Stingray, Woman, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1895
Group 10 is the largest of the Flat Rocks Ridge Aboriginal engraving sites, which also has highest number of figures (145) as well as grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 149
- Motifs: Bird, Bird Track, Bullroarer, Boomerang, Echidna, Emu, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Track, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1961
- View site sketch – Series 1, 2 & 6 / Series 3 / Series 4 / Series 5
A small Aboriginal engraving site along Flat Rocks Ridge in Gunderman with an echidna and three mundoes.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Echidna, Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1961
Flat Rocks Ridge Group 6 is one of the most significant Aboriginal engraving sites of this area. The vast rock platform includes a large Baiame and stingray, as well as hunting scenes and and animal tracks.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 80
- Motifs: Baiame, Bird, Club, Boomerang, Circle, Deity, Emu, Emu Track, Kangaroo, Koala, Moon, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Stingray, Woman
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1895
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site along Flat Rocks Ridge in Gunderman; it has over 50 axe grinding grooves and 12 figures including two large kangaroos.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Bird, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Man
- Year first recorded: 1961