This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal Shelter with Art in a gully near Linden ridge, this small cave has over 30 hand stencils in red ochre.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1959
A low cliff-line with red ochre figures (including two emu tracks) and two sets of hand stencils
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Emu Track, Hand
- Year first recorded: 1984
A remote rocjk shelter along the Linden Ridge in the Blue Mountains, which has a panel of Aboriginal charcoal rock art.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1998
An impressively high, long and deep shelter below Linden Ridge in the Blue Mountains, Stratton Cave contains Aboriginal rock art which was "discovered" by A.J. Stratton in 1934.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Emu, Emu Track, Goanna, Hand, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Koala, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1958
The Little Beach Aboriginal engraving site has two vertical engravings, of a whale and a fish.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Whale
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1977
Little Devils Rock at Maroota is a significant Aboriginal engraving site, which has a number of motifs including a large Baiame and a Daramulan figure.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Baiame, Boomerang, Daramulan, Deity, Koala, Man
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1897
- View site sketch
Aboriginal art site with dry charcoal sketches of what may be birds, in a large shelter above Flint and Steel Beach
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Bird
- Year first recorded: 1988
A small shelter below the Red Hands Track, with two handprints in red ochre, and additional stencils of what may be pieces of bark.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1964
On one of the rock platforms along the Little Moab Track is a school of (four) whales and a deity figure… the engravings are very faint and weathered and hard to make out.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Near a proposed MLALC residential development site at Lizard Rock are Aboriginal engravings of a kangaroo, and at least six mundoes (footprints)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
- Year first recorded: 1975
An Aboriginal engraving site near the Flannel Flower Walking Track in Bouddi NP, which has multiple ovals/circles, two shields and a club or boomerang.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Vandalised
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Boomerang, Jellyfish, Oval, Shield, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
An Aboriginal engraving site in Bouddi NP, with a single carving of a kangaroo.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
An Aboriginal engraving site on the ridge above Lobster Beach in Bouddi NP, which has a man, a fish and what may be a mantra ray.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure, Man, Manta Ray
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 2019
Withiin the fenced grounds of Loher Cashel is a small rock which has cup-and-ring motifs and cupmarks.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring
An Aboriginal engraving of an axe and a second indeterminate figure, near the Long Track.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Axe, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1983
An Aboriginal engraving of a macropod near the Long Track / Long Trail.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1983
A complex Aboriginal engraving site across multiple adjacent platforms, which includes a very long line of footprints (mundoes) and a depiction of Baiame.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 50
- Motifs: Baiame, Boomerang, Deity, Dingo, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Seal, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Hand stencils and what may be a stencil of a boomerang in red ochre in a shallow overhang near the Long Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Hand
- Year first recorded: 1985
An Aboriginal engraving site which may represent a hunting scene, on the western side of the Long Trail
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 13
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man, Shield
- Year first recorded: 1984
- View site sketch
The Long Trail Trig Aboriginal engraving site is described as a "remarkable ceremonial group" with figures including a deity, two composite beings and a kangaroo.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Kangaroo, Spear
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch