This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
A Blue Mountains Aboriginal rock art site at the base of a tall cliff near the Bells Line of Road, which includes a depiction of an ibis in charcoal.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 29
- Motifs: Bird, Ibis, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: William Moon
- Year first recorded: 2020
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
The Badger Stone on Ilkley Moor is a significant prehistoric rock art site, featuring over 110 figures including 95 Cup motifs.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 115
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring, Lines
- Year first recorded: 1879
- View site sketch
The Graining's Head stone on Weary Hill features a complex arrangement of Cup and Ring motifs.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Cup-and-Ring
Green Gates 06 is a rock art site on Ilkley Moor which features a prominent Cup and Ring motif.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Cup-and-Ring
First documented in the 1880s, the Idol Stone on Ilkley Moor is a small boulder with 25 cup marks arranged in a distinct pattern which dates from the Bronze Age.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 29
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Lines
- Year first recorded: 1882
- View site sketch
The Neb Stone is a distinctive boulder on the Ilkley Moor in Yorkshire which has two cup marks.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Lines
The relatively small Pepperpot Stone on Ilkley Moor is covered by almost 50 Stone Age cup marks.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 50
- Motifs: Cupmarks
The Pitchfork Stone, part of the Green Gates stones on Ilkley Moor, features an interesting rock carving which resembles a pitchfork.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Lines
- Year first recorded: 1961
- View site sketch
The Swastika Stone on Ilkley Moor features a unique rock carving resembling a swastika, which dates back to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Swastika
- Year first recorded: 1885
- View site sketch
The Haystack is a significant Bronze Age rock art site in Ilkley Moor, which has over 60 cup-markings and 10 cup-and-ring motifs.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 75
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring
- Year first recorded: 1879
- View site sketch
The Weary Stone (or Weary Hill Stone) is located on Weary Hill in Ilkley Moor, It features intricate rock art with a complex cup and groove design.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring, Lines
Willy Hall's Wood Stone on Ilkley Moor is a Stone Age rock art site with at least twenty Cup motifs, some with single or double rings.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring
The Indian Cave in Kodachrome Basin State Park has over a hundred grooves or handprints carved into the sandstone wall outside a shallow overhang. It's not certain that they were made by American Indians.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 100
- Motifs: Hand
An Aboriginal engraving on a spur above Cowan Creek, which may depict an initiation ceremony. The group of figures includes two deities and seven men.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Deity, Kangaroo, Man, Oval, Shark
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch
The Intestine Man rock art site in Utah features an anthropomorphic figure which has its intestines showing, as well as three bighorn sheep and other motifs.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 25
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Man, Sheep