This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
The spectacular Great Galley rock art site in Horseshoe Canyon is a shallow, north-facing rockshelter with numerous Barrier Canyon Style anthropomorphs and quadrupeds, mainly arranged in groups or rows for a distance of approximately 60m.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 60
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Dog/Wolf, Lines, Sheep
The Great Mackerel Shelter (SWA 1) above Great Mackerel Beach was extensively researched in the 1980s and 1990s. It has over 100 motifs including hand stencils in white and red ochre, and paintings.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 114
- Motifs: Boomerang, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
Great Mackerel Shelter with Art (SWA) 2 has fifteen hand stencils in red ochre, on a cliff above Great Mackerel Beach
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
Great Mackerel Shelter with Art (SWA) 3 has two partial hand stencils, on a cliff above Great Mackerel Beach
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal engraving site above Green Point Creek near Pearl Beach, which has very weathered carvings.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Oval, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1995
A remote Aboriginal rock art site near the Grose River, which features a long panel with over 20 stylized human-like figures drawn in charcoal.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Man
- Year first recorded: 2025
Two separate Aboriginal grinding groove sites next to waterholes along the cliff-top; one has three grooves and the other about ten
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 1977
Located along the popular Spit to Manly bushwalk, the Grotto Point Aboriginal Site included boomerangs, fish, sharks and a large kangaroo. The engravings are about 1,000 years old and have interpretative signage.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 17
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Track, Oval, Shark, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A significant Aboriginal rock engraving site in Allambie Heights, Gumbooya Reserve has 70 figures (many very weathered or no longer visible) in three groups.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 70
- Motifs: Cat, Club, Dolphin, Echidna, Eel, Fish, Fishing Line, Man, Oval, Seed Pod, Shark, Shield, Snake, Thylacine, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
Faint Aboriginal charcoal drawings, in a small shelter near the industrial area of Mt Ku-ring-gai
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021