This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An interesting Aboriginal engraving site below Lyre Trig in Kariong; most figures are very weathered or have been buried by soil and vegetation.
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Circle, Eel, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a single wallaby, which is fairly weathed; it's one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
A man (fairly weathered) south of the Mackerel Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Single fish near Mackerel Track, on a rock platform surrounded by thick scrub
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Three weathered shields and another figure on a small rock platform, near the Mackerel Trail
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Shield
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A whale and bird engraving, and number of “stone circles” formed by thousands of small pebbles arranged in neat circles.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Ibis, Lines, Oval, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An interesting Aboriginal rock art site in the Hunter Valley near Murrays Run, which has a very well-preserved panel of charcoal figures. They include kangaroos and a series of copulating couples.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Boomerang, Copulating Couple, Kangaroo, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: Margrit Koettig, W.J. Needham
- Year first recorded: 1967
- View site sketch
A small group of Aboriginal engravings on a spur above Maitland bay. The figures include a shark, fish, an eel and a shield.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Mundoe (foot), Shark, Shield
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
A deep shelter at the base of a tall cliff-line near Maitland Bay Drive with multiple charcoal motifs and two hand stencils.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1980
Aboriginal engraving of a man with upraised arms, on a small rock platform next to Mona Vale Road.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Year first recorded: 2007
An Aboriginal engraving of a man peeing in a waterhole, some hands and fish on a small rock platform below West Head Road.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Fish, Hand, Man
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A large rock platform on Darkinjung Land in Mangrove Mountain contains over 100 grinding grooves, as well as a shelter with hand stencils and what appeats to be a stone arrangement.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 115
- Motifs: Hand, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1975
A "well posed" kangaroo almost four metres in length, this Aboriginal engraving site in Mangrove Mountain was originally recorded by Ian Sim.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch
A ridgtetop Aboriginal site at Mangrove Mountain, which has nine figures including an eel or Rainbow Serpent.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Eel, Goanna, Kangaroo, Man, Rainbow Serpent
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a large whale on a flat rock surface in Mangrove Mountains. Nearby are two Aboriginal wells.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1963
- View site sketch
Scattered figures around this small Aboriginal engraving site near Mangrove Road include a Daramulan figure.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Indeterminate figure, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shark
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
- View site sketch
A small Aboriginal engraving site with an eel and kangaroo on a small boulder.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Eel, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1980
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site in Strickland State Forest with two male figures, and 16 grinding grooves.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1945
Just past the Marlong Arch in the Mount Morgan section of Carnarvon National Park is a small Aboriginal hand stencil site.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 16
- Motifs: Hand
Eleven hand stencils in a low overhang near Marramarra Ridge; many of them are very distinct
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1984