This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An unusual Aboriginal rock art site on the side of a tall cliff face, which has two faces and what appears to be a snake.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Head, Snake
- Year first recorded: 2022
Dark red ochre paintings preserved in two rock shelters on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Manning, in Yengo National Park.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 45
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Dingo, Echidna
- Originally recorded by: N. W. G. Macintosh
- Year first recorded: 1965
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Seventeen Aboriginal sites located and around Mount Murray Anderson. They include multiple deity figures, two enormous whales and some stone arrangements.
- Quality: 4/5
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stone arrangement, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 64
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Boomerang, Deity, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Man, Oval, Shield, Stingray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
A ten-foot high Aboriginal engraving of Baiame in a commanding position, at the end of the Mount Murray Anderson ridge.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Deity
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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An Aboriginal engraving of a deity on a sloping rock below Mount Murray Anderson. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Deity
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1959
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An Aboriginal engraving of an echidna. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Echidna
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
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An Aboriginal engraving site depicting four leaping kangaroos on a huge rock platform below Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A weathered Aboriginal engraving of a man holding a shield and boomerang. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
A series of Aboriginal engraving sites to the south-west of Mount Murray Anderson, which includes two large whales, a man-emu composite figure and a stone arrangement.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Boomerang, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Stingray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Fish
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A compact Aboriginal engraving site that includes two men and four shields. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Emu, Man, Oval, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
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An interesting waterhole to the south-west of Mount Murray Anderson, with multiple overlapping Aboriginal engravings and axe-grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Boomerang, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2017
Under a small rock overhang near Mount Olive are some well-preserved cave paintings, including a wallaby and some indeterminate figures.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1992
An interesting panel containing Aboriginal cave paintings in a shelter near Bilpin. Most of the figures are painted in charcoal.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Eel, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Mark Roebuck
- Year first recorded: 2022
Two adjacent shelters with Aboriginal rock art in a gully of Big Yengo Creek; they have weathered hand stencils and drawings.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Hand, Lines
- Year first recorded: 2018
A small site sandwiched between the old Pacific Highway and the railway line and accessed by an unsigned track. The site features three figures and a very long line of mundoes.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 74
- Motifs: Baiame, Basket, Boomerang, Fish, Kangaroo Track, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1904
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Aboriginal rock art including charcoal drawings and red ochre hand stencils in a long shelter below the old Pacific Highway
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal engraving site above the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track with a giant bandicoot, echidna, three men and what may be an ancestral figure.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Bandicoot, Deity, Echidna, Man
- Year first recorded: 1984
An Aboriginal engraving site with a single fish, in thick near the Tunnel Trail.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 1973
An Aboriginal engraving of half a man, who has been speared in the foot. It's on a small rock platform above Mullet Creek.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1899
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