This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
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