This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
The Howe Aboriginal Area is one of the most important ceremonial Aboriginal rock engraving sites in the Sydney area. Figures includes an enormous Daramulan and three Rainbow-Serpents.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Daramulan, Kangaroo, Koala, Man, Oval, Rainbow Serpent
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1947
- View site sketch
The Hungry Trig engravings are on a small rock platform below a low cliff, surrounded by dense bush. The site has many figures including 12 ovals and three decorated men.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 27
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Octopus, Oval, Shield, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Three shelters along a low cliff line near the Hungry Trig station contain one or two Aboriginal red ochre hand stencils
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 1978
The Backstone Beck Stones on Ilkley Moor, re-discovered in 1956, feature intricate rock carvings including over 80 Cup and Groove motifs.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 87
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Lines
- Year first recorded: 1956
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The Badger Stone on Ilkley Moor is a significant prehistoric rock art site, featuring over 110 figures including 95 Cup motifs.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 115
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring, Lines
- Year first recorded: 1879
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The Graining's Head stone on Weary Hill features a complex arrangement of Cup and Ring motifs.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Cup-and-Ring
Green Gates 06 is a rock art site on Ilkley Moor which features a prominent Cup and Ring motif.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Cup-and-Ring
First documented in the 1880s, the Idol Stone on Ilkley Moor is a small boulder with 25 cup marks arranged in a distinct pattern which dates from the Bronze Age.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 29
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Lines
- Year first recorded: 1882
- View site sketch
The Neb Stone is a distinctive boulder on the Ilkley Moor in Yorkshire which has two cup marks.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Lines
The relatively small Pepperpot Stone on Ilkley Moor is covered by almost 50 Stone Age cup marks.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 50
- Motifs: Cupmarks
The Pitchfork Stone, part of the Green Gates stones on Ilkley Moor, features an interesting rock carving which resembles a pitchfork.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Lines
- Year first recorded: 1961
- View site sketch
The Swastika Stone on Ilkley Moor features a unique rock carving resembling a swastika, which dates back to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Swastika
- Year first recorded: 1885
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The Haystack is a significant Bronze Age rock art site in Ilkley Moor, which has over 60 cup-markings and 10 cup-and-ring motifs.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 75
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring
- Year first recorded: 1879
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The Weary Stone (or Weary Hill Stone) is located on Weary Hill in Ilkley Moor, It features intricate rock art with a complex cup and groove design.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring, Lines
Willy Hall's Wood Stone on Ilkley Moor is a Stone Age rock art site with at least twenty Cup motifs, some with single or double rings.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring
The Indian Cave in Kodachrome Basin State Park has over a hundred grooves or handprints carved into the sandstone wall outside a shallow overhang. It's not certain that they were made by American Indians.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 100
- Motifs: Hand
An Aboriginal engraving on a spur above Cowan Creek, which may depict an initiation ceremony. The group of figures includes two deities and seven men.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Deity, Kangaroo, Man, Oval, Shark
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch
The Intestine Man rock art site in Utah features an anthropomorphic figure which has its intestines showing, as well as three bighorn sheep and other motifs.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 25
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Man, Sheep
Aboriginal engraving of a platypus, carved in an unusually simple style.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Platypus
- Year first recorded: 1984
A shelter with Aboriginal rock art in a gully near Jacks Track, which has over 50 motifs. They include drawings in charcoal, white and red ochre, and hand stencils.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 50
- Motifs: Eel, Emu, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 2018