This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Two Aboriginal hand stencils in a small and shallow rock shelter.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1980
A low shelter with Aboriginal rock art mostly in charcoal, with some red ochre. The figures include a wombat or kangaroo, snake and fish.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 16
- Motifs: Bird Track, Kangaroo, Man, Snake, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1998
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Emu
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal axe grinding groove site in the bed of Bumbles Creek, where its forded by Kilkenny Road. It's estimated there are more than 500 grooves.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Circle, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1960
A Bronze Age artifact, the Killelton Stone has 45 cupmarks. It was re-located to its current position in 1997.
- Site condition: Good, Re-located
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 45
- Motifs: Cupmarks
- Year first recorded: 1997
A small but deep cave in Mt Ku-ring-gai has four clearly-stencilled hand prints in ochre.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1985
- View site sketch
A rock platform near the Kimmerikong Trail has Aboriginal engravings whch include a row of ten fish, and a very weathered human figure.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 2007
Axe grinding grooves along an unnamed creek along the Kimmerikong Ridge in Muogamarra National Park
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2016
An elevated rock platform along the Kimmerikong Ridge (Muogamarra National Park) which has 13 figures, incuding a large Daramulan.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Club, Daramulan, Deity, Eel, Fish, Goanna
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site on a large rock platform along the Kimmerikong Ridge, with three fish, an oval and an eel. Nearby are multiple heaps of stones.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Eel, Fish
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch – Eel (Mcarthy) / Fish (Campbell)
A weathered Aboriginal rock engravings site along the Kimmerikong Ridge, which was said to depict an initiation ceremony.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Child, Man, Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
Three charchoal figures at an Aboriginal Shelter with Art site on Kincumba Mountain.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 2010
An Aboriginal engraving of an anthropomorphic figure on Kincumba Mountain
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Lines
- Year first recorded: 1992
An Aboriginal engraving of an eel on Kincumba mountain.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1992
A compact Aboriginal site on Kincumba mountain, wihch includes fish and an eel, as well as some unusual figures.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Lines, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1992
Partly covered by moss, this Aboriginal engraving of a macropod is on a small rock platform on Kincumba mountain.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1992
An Aboriginal engraving of a koala on Kincumba mountain.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Koala
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1992
The Kings Tableland Aboriginal Place is a significant Aboriginal site in the Blue Mountains, which has a large number of grinding grooves and a shelter with carvings on the wall of animal tracks.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Bird Track, Emu Track, Kangaroo Track
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1973
A series of four shelters along the same cliff-line with over 300 Aboriginal rock art motifs. The figures include bullroarers, hand stencils and the tail feathers of a bird.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 300
- Motifs: Bird Track, Bullroarer, Echidna, Hand, Indeterminate figure, Lyrebird, Man
A small Aboriginal shelter with art in the Kings Tableland; some of the charcoal motifs have been damaged by fire and exfoliation.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Fire damage
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Lines