This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A significant, signposted Aboriginal engraving site in the Royal National Park, the Jibbon Head Engravings are a short walk from Bundeena. The carvings can be seen from an elevated boardwalk with interpretive signage.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Deity, Jellyfish, Shark, Shield, Turtle, Whale
- Year first recorded: 1904
The Joalah Firetrail Aboriginal engraving is a small carving of what may be a man, woman or anthropomorph.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1982
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal rock art site above Joe Crafts Creek, with a single charcoal drawing.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2021
A small Aboriginal rock engraving site at the head of a small creek Berowra, which has three figures (including a fish) and multiple grinding grooves.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Margrit Koettig, R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1942
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A single red hand stencil above Joe Crafts Creek, in a wide but shallow shelter.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2021
A charcoal drawing of a jumping kangaroo, in a large and open shelter in the McPherson State Forest
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
Located along the Kamber Road Trail is an Aboriginal engraving of a man, with upright hands.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
- View site sketch
Located on the edge of a ledge, with views over Garigal NP, is an Aboriginal engraving site with a couple of quite well-defined shields, a kangaroo and a boomerang.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Boomerang, Kangaroo, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo track; nearby are two sets of grinding grooves on the large rock platform.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo Track
- Year first recorded: 2023
A distinct carving of a stingray, on a boulder just above the Hawkesbury River (Deerubbin) near Peats Ferrry Bridge.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Stingray
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews
- Year first recorded: 1995
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An Aboriginal engraving site in Kariong, which has a pair of emus situated on what was an old road.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Emu
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
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A single fish engraving near a firetrail in Kariong.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1978
An Aboriginal engraving site in Kariong which has ten unusual figures, many of which resemble rabbits (ceremonial figures).
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Rabbit
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1975
A single engraving of a snake near a firetrail in Kariong.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Snake
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1978
Eleven figures have been recorded (one is no longer visible) on a large rock platform near the Central Coast Fire Control Centre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Emu, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
Large emu on a small rock located in the scrub near the Kariong Rifle Range.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Emu
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
- View site sketch
Single mundoe (footprint) near the Rifle Range Firetrail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1976
The ledges along Keep River were a wet season shelter for the Miriwoong people, with the rock art remaining as evidence of their presence.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Anthropomorph
Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo on a long rock platform just above a firetrail
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1973
Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo (and fish) on a rock platfom above Kellys Creek.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1980