This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
One of the larger Aboriginal engraving sites along Flat Rocks Ridge in Gunderman, Group 9 has 30 engravings (including a large Baiame and his wife).
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Baiame, Bird Track, Boomerang, Deity, Goanna, Kangaroo, Oval, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1961
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engraving of a shield on Flat Rocks Ridge in Gunderman.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Shield
- Year first recorded: 1961
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
A weathered Aboriginal engraving of a shield on a rock platform near Morgan Road in Belrose.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Siltation
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Foot
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
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
One of the significant and complex Aboriginal engraving sites along the Boree Track, Frying Pan Rock has over 130 figures. The site probably depicts one or more hunting scenes, and includes 12 kangaroos (two of them speared) as well as many other animals.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 139
- Motifs: Bandicoot, Club, Boomerang, Dingo, Echidna, Emu, Emu Track, Kangaroo, Kangaroo - Speared, Kangaroo Track, Koala, Man, Spear, Woman, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1898
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