This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A circular pothole surrounded by over 20 axe grinding grooves, near the Peeble Trail just outside Marramarra National Park.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2016
Three axe grinding grooves in the creek bed above Freezing Hole (near Peggys Pool).
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1987
Grooved water channel and axe grinding grooves on a rock platform near the Pogson Trig Firetrail.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Water Hole
- Year first recorded: 2021
A long rock overhang which contains numerous art motifs, including a stencilled hand, two macropod figures and some unidentified lines.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2005
First recorded by the 1st Hornsby Scout Group, this Aboriginal engraving site depicts a man and his pregnant wife.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
A weathered Aboriginal engraving of two wallabies (or kangaroos) on a sloping rock platform
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 1967
A small Aboriginal engraving site which depicts "a fleeing kangaroo, and an emu with 2 chicks, a "common site in the locality". The site has extensive views.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Emu, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1945
- View site sketch
A solitary Aboriginal engraving of what may be a kangaroo, or a marine creature. The site is near the head of the Powder Works Valley.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1984
- View site sketch
A single anthropomorphic figure next to a waterhole, near the Powerline Trail
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1975
A signposted site next to Quarter Sessions Road has an Aboriginal engraving depicting a pair of leaping kangaroos.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Re-located
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Jo McDonald, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
Aboriiginal engraving of a large speared kangaroo as well as two nearby human figures near Raverson Close.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Axe, Hand, Kangaroo, Kangaroo - Speared, Man, Oval
- Year first recorded: 1979
One of the best showcases of Aboriginal art in the area, the singposted Red Hands Cave at West Head has multiple red ochre handprints.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
The Red Hands Cave Circuit passes a shelter which is one of the best showcases of Aboriginal rock art in the Blue Mountains, and a extensive axe grinding groove site. It combines the Red Hands Cave Walking Track and Link Track.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 80
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1913
An impressive display of red, yellow and white Aboriginal hand stencils in a long shelter. The Red Hands Cave is reached via a 1km return walk from the end of the Red Hands Firetrail or a longer 8.2km bushwalk along Campfire Creek.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 76
- Motifs: Hand, Vulva
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1913
It's a short hike to the signposted Red Rock Canyon Petroglyph Wall, where there are both pictographs and petroglyphs at the base of a tall cliff.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
Faint Aboriginal hand stencil, in a shallow shelter on the back of Topham Hill
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2019
An Aboriginal engraving of an eel in the the creek bed above Refuge Bay Waterfall
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel
- Year first recorded: 1987
Aboriginal red hand stenci in a shelter below the Resolute Track.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
The signposted Resolute Track Aboriginal Engraving Site is a short walk from the Resolute Picnic Area. It has several figures, including a man with a club across his waist.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Club, Eel, Fish, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1965
- View site sketch
Along the Resolute Track are a number of scattered Aboriginal engraving sites. These include the signposted Resolute Aboriginal Engraving Site.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 47
- Motifs: Club, Eel, Fish, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shark, Snake
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1898