This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A small Aboriginal rock engraving site below Hat Hill in Blackheath, which has emu (or bird) prints and grinding grooves.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Emu Track
- Year first recorded: 1985
A very well-preserved Aboriginal engraving of a wallaby or kangaroo, above Hawkes Head Drive
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2018
An unusual Aboriginal engraving site on a vertical rock surface, which includes a Baiame and Daramulan figure.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Baiame, Child, Daramulan
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, Stanbury and Clegg, Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1895
- View site sketch
A small sandstone shelter with remnant Aboriginal rock art, including at least three hand stencils and a charcoal figure.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1984
An Aboriginal engraving of an eel and several grinding grooves on a rock platform next to the Hawkesbury Track in Berowra.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1983
Multiple fish engraved on a small boulder next to the Hawkesbury Track at Berowra Waters.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 1970
Multiple Aboriginal axe grinding grooves on a large rock platform along the Hawkesbury Track.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 20
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1966
An Aboriginal rock art site with a small wallaby drawn in red ochre, near the Hawkesbury Track in Berowra
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1983
A long (30m) and tall shelter has a number of smooth niches in which there are over 30 charcoal drawings of birds, emus, wallabies and many indeterminate figures.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Bird, Emu, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1985
A single engraved circle and three sets of axe grinding grooves in a small rock platform in Hidden Valley.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Stone circle
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 2021
High Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon features ancient Barrier Canyon Style art, including anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Man
On top of Honemans Rock in Kincumba Mountain Reserve are three lines (which may not be of Aboriginal origin) and two axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Lines
Horseshoe Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon features diverse pictographs and petroglyphs from Barrier, Anasazi, and Fremont cultures.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 60
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Basket, Lines, Man, Sheep
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
Containing the most extensive panel of Aboriginal drawings in the Hunters Hill shire, this tall shelter has many red ochre figures.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Boomerang, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1988
An Aboriginal rock art site in Hunters Hill above the Lane Cove River, which has two complex red ochre motifs.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1983
A rock shelter just above the Lane Cove River in Hunters Hill, which multiple hand stencils and red ochre drawings.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1976
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
- View site sketch