This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
An Aboriginal rock art shelter above the Hawkesbury River with boomerangs in red ochre, and kangaroos drawn in charcoal.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Boomerang, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1988
A small but very deep Aboriginal rock art shelter above the Hawkesbury River, which has multiple kangaroos and a large emu.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Emu, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1988
An Aboriginal rock art shelter above the Hawkesbury River, which has four bird-like figures in red ochre.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Bird, Emu
- Year first recorded: 2026
A significant Aboriginal contact rock art site above the Hawkesbury River depicting a sailing ship; other figures include kangaroos, fish and had stencils.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 17
- Motifs: Bird, Contact Motif, Fish, Kangaroo, Sailing Ship
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1975
Vertical engraving in a rock shelter near Appletree Bay depicting half a woman
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Woman
- Year first recorded: 2001
Over sixty Aboriginal hand stencils (as well as two foot stencils) in a small shelter near Halletts Beach at West Head.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 78
- Motifs: Foot, Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1936
An Aboriginal engraving of a fish near Halletts Beach at West Head.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
An Aboriginal hand stencil and small axe stencil in a shelter above Halletts Beach at West Head.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Axe, Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1978
Two adjacent Aboriginal rock art shelters near Yengo NP; the smaller shelter has over 40 motifs including three sunbursts and three sets of tally marks.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 47
- Motifs: Arm, Boomerang, Emu Track, Foot, Hand, Lines, Sunburst, Tally Marks
- Year first recorded: 1975
Three Aboriginal sites near Bilpin: a shelter with hand stencils, an occupation shelter and a single spear-grinding groove.
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2022
An Aboriginal engraving of a small fish along the Hardys Bay Trail in Bouddi National Park.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 2018
An Aboriginal engraving of a marine creature along the Hardys Bay Trail in Bouddi National Park.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 2018
An Aboriginal engraving site which has two large whales - both swimming in the same direction but on separate rock platforms - along Hardys Bay Trail in Bouddi National Park.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 2018
Arc in red ochre on the back of a large shelter, near the Harvey Trig Station.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Oval
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1983