This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An unusual Aboriginal engraing site in Lane Cove National Park, which contains only emu and kangaroo tracks.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Bird Track
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
- Year first recorded: 1979
- View site sketch
A shelter above Drip Rock Creek, which features a line of 11 koalas and a sinuous snake in charcoal.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Koala, Snake
- Year first recorded: 2009
A signposted Aboriginal rock art site in the Mount Morgan section of Carnarvon National Park, the Kookaburra Cave is named after a stencil that resembles a kookaburra.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Hand
Aboriginal red ochre and charcoal figures in a tall and long shelter near Woy Woy. An impressive site unfortunately damaged by graffiti.
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1899
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Shelter below Koolewong Ridge, which has Aboriginal charcoal art (indeterminate motifs) and a midden.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Partially Destroyed
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 18
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 2019
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Aboriginal cave art in a long shelter below the Koolewong Ridge Firetrail. There are over 30 ideterminate motifs in charcoal and ochre.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 23
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1985
A large weathered whale (over six metres in length) along the Koolewong Ridge Firetrail. It was first documented by W.D. Campbell.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An Aboriginal engraving site near Kowara Road in Somersby, which has five figures including two unusually-shaped macropods.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Siltation
- Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Bird, Boomerang, Dingo, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1960
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A complex Aboriginal rock art site in Kulnura which has over a hundred motifs, including 50+ hand stencils, boomerangs, kangaroos and a gridded basket.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 110
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Arm, Axe, Basket, Boomerang, Foot, Hand, Kangaroo, Tally Marks
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1975
A very weathered engraving of a whale and its calf, on the headland at La Perouse.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Five hand stencils in a small shelter near a ridge above Woodford Dam, one of which shows a full forearm.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1958
A very weathered shelter in Mount Colah, originally documented as having five figures drawn in charcoal.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
Three Aboriginal axe grinding grooves sites along Lapstone Creek, including a large plaform in the creek bed with ten grooves.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 13
- Year first recorded: 1991
An Aboriginal rock engraving of a single kangaroo in Lawson in the Blue Mountains, on Kangaroo St.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1967
A small rock outcrop in Lawson, with unusual Aboriginal rock art motifs
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Emu Track, Indeterminate figure, Lines
- Year first recorded: 1988
A significant site based on the incredibly large number of axe grinding grooves (>250), this site along Layburys Creek also has two shelters with rock art.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Axe, Boomerang, Hand
- Year first recorded: 1987
Three weathered charcoal figures located in a long shelter behind a waterfall on Layburys Creek.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1987
A very weathered Daramulan figure, shield and boomerang on a sloping rock platform to the west of Mount Leochares.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Daramulan, Shield
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1973
Twelve axe grinding grooves (some are silted over) on a small rock platform to the west of Mount Leochares.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Siltation
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 1985
Two adjoining rock platforms to the west of Mount Leochares which have weathered Aboriginal engravings, including a stingray and an indeterminate figure.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Bird, Boomerang, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Shield, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1973