This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal engraving of a man and a "composite emu spirit figure"; it's one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Man, Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
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The area around Lyre Trig has over twenty Aboriginal engraving sites, many recorded by Campbell, Sim and McCarthy and some containing unusual carvings.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 99
- Motifs: Bird, Deity, Eel, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Oval, Shark, Shield, Snake
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
An Aboriginal engraving of a single fish; one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
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A large Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo near the Lyre Trig Track; possibly a mythological figure due to its size.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An Aboriginal engraving of a goanna or lizard near Lyre Trig
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Goanna
- Year first recorded: 2020
A single Aboriginal engraving of a man below Lyre Trig in Kariong, first documented by W.D. Campbell in 1899.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A very weathered and faint Aboriginal engraving of a man on top of Mount Lyre (next to Lyre Trig)
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 2019
An Aboriginal engraving of a fish and an oval below Lyre Trig; it is one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish, Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
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A small Aboriginal engraving site near the Lyre Trig in Kariong, which has a mundoe and a kangaroo.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1981
A complex and likely significant Aboriginal engraving site below the Lyre Trig in Kariong. The site has over sixty figures and 10 axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 59
- Motifs: Club, Boomerang, Dolphin, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Koala, Man, Oval, Shark, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An interesting Aboriginal engraving site which has 14 figures, including a marine creature (which could be a shark), a snake and an indeterminate animal. It's one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shark, Snake
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
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Two very weathered wallabies near the Lyre Trig Firetrail.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2021
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
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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
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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
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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