This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A small shelter with Aboriginal rock art on the wall and ceiling, including birds, men and a woman.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Bird, Man, Woman
- Year first recorded: 2019
Aboriginal rock art in a shelter above Angorawa Creek, with three charcoal motifs and two remants of hand stencils.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure, Man
- Year first recorded: 2019
A small but deep shelter in a tributary of Angorawa Creek., which has a series of leaping wallabies or kangaroos.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2019
A bird/emu track and wallaby/kangaroo track along Lawson Ridge in the Blue Mountains
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Bird Track, Kangaroo Track
- Originally recorded by: Eugene Stockton
- Year first recorded: 1958
Apple Tree Bay Shelter near Bobbin Head has stencils of two fish and 12 hands one panel, and charcoal drawings on another panel
The Ardamore Standing Stones Outlier is a large megalith which has multiple Bronze Age rock art motifs on its north-west side.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring
A series of Aboriginal engraving sites along a ridge of rock extending from the Waratah Track across West Head Road,
- Quality: 3/5
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 33
- Motifs: Echidna, Fish, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
Akurra Adnya (Arkaroo Rock) is a culturally significant Aboriginal rock art site, which is considered one of the best examples of Adnyamathanha rock art. The shelter is reached by a 3.2km loop bushwalk.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 100
- Motifs: Bird Track, Circle, Man, Serpent, Tally Marks, Woman
- Year first recorded: 1957
Six red hand stencils in a fairly small and shallow rock overhang on the Asgard Plateau.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1996
An Aboriginal engraving site in Maroota depicting a kangaroo hunt, the figures include a man, two kangaroos, three koalas and two eels.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 16
- Motifs: Eel, Goanna, Kangaroo, Kangaroo - Speared, Koala, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1959
A small shelter with Aboriginal rock art, just outside the Wollemi National Park. The deep overhang has a number of hand stencils, as well as one of a hand and a club.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 26
- Motifs: Club, Foot, Hand
- Year first recorded: 1985
An Aboriginal engraving of a fish below the Bairne Track at West Head
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2020
Aboriginal engraving near Bairne Trig (West Head) with figures incuding a man or woman, and a koala.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Boomerang, Koala, Man, Shield, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A potentially significant site near the Bairne Trig, which has figures of men and women, an unusual shield and what may be a stone arrangement.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Fish, Man, Shark, Woman
- Year first recorded: 2021
Five mundoes near the Bairne Trig (West Head)
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
An enormous sandstone shelter in the Bala Range, which has over forty figures in charcoal and red ochre. They include two anthropomorphs which are over two metres tall, and a number of animals.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Echidna, Emu, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Jeff Betteridge
- Year first recorded: 2017
An Aboriginal engraving of a large eel (or rainbow serpent) and several bird tracks on a ridge off the Bala Range Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Bird, Eel
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
A small and shallow shelter with Aboriginal rock art below a ridge off the Bala Range Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2016
A rock platform near the Boree Track which has an engraving of a woman (in profile) and numerous axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Woman
- Year first recorded: 1977
A very small and low shelter with a single Aboriginal red ochre hand stencil.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand