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 deity (probably Baiame) on a large rock platform below the Taber trig station
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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An Aboriginal engraving of a man or deity on a large rock platform below the Taber trig station.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Aboriginal engraving of a seal, sea lion or dugong, near the edge of a large rock platform below Taber Trig
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Fish, Seal
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A long and deep shelter near the Taber Trig, with charcoal drawings (documented by Campbell) and red hand stencils
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A small Aboriginal engraving site west of Taber Trig. Figures include a kangaroo, fih and six mundoes,
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot), Oval
- Year first recorded: 1975
Shelter with a single Aboriginal charcoal drawing in Taffys Gully.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An Aboriginal engraving site on a low saddle along the track to Taffys Rock, which has two whales and a wallaby.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A shelter near the Terraborra North Ridge, which has multiple charcoal figures (including two kangaroos)
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
- Year first recorded: 2019
A shelter below a weathered cliff-line near the Terraborra North Ridge has figures in both charcoal and white.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2019
A spectacular Aboriginal rock art site near the Terraborra North Ridge, with a long panel containing over 30 charcoal figures.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 36
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Indeterminate figure, Man, Woman
- Year first recorded: 2019
Two adjoining Aboriginal engraving sites near the Terraborra North Trail, depicting an emu, bird and anthropomorphic figure.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Elk, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
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The Hunting Site and Lyrebird Site are two Aboriginal engraving sites in Terrey Hills, One represents a hunting scene, and the other is named after an engraving of a lyrebird.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 46
- Motifs: Bird Track, Boomerang, Deer, Echidna, Kangaroo, Lines, Lyrebird, Man, Mundoe (foot), Possum, Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1941
An small Aboriginal engraving site depicting a hunter and his two wives celebrating a successful kangaroo hunt.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1941
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The Lyrebird Site in Larool Reserve (Terrey Hills) features an engraving of a lyrebird, as well as many other animal carvings.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 31
- Motifs: Bird Track, Boomerang, Echidna, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Lyrebird, Possum, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1941
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Tesselate Hill (or Tesselated Pavements) has an Aboriginal engraving and many grinding grooves over the large rock surface.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Woman
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
The Chimneys rock art site has pictographs and petroglyphs dated up to several thousand years old. They are located at the base of one of The Chimneys in Big Bend.
- Quality: 5/5
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Lines
Among the many Aboriginal engraving sites around Cottage Point are a number which depict Baiame, a deity figure and ancestral hero of the Aboriginal people.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 47
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Deity, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
A small Aboriginal rock art shelter, which contains a few areas painted in red ochre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1978
A series of Aboriginal grinding grooves sites and an engraving site along The Pinnacle on the Mount Hay Range.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Bear track
- Year first recorded: 1989
A spectacular Aboriginal rock art site, The Tombs in the Mount Moffat section of Carnarvon National Park has over 400 stencils. The site has the only full adult body stencil known to exist in the world.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 400
- Motifs: Foot, Hand, Kangaroo Track, Spear