This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
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The Longueville Park Aboriginal engraving site has an unusually-drawn emu and an oval figure; it may represent an emu hunt.,
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Emu, Oval
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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The Lovers and Whales Aboriginal engraving site near the Salvation Loop Track at West Head features an enormous whale, and a copulating couple
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Bird, Copulating Couple, Man, Oval, Shield, Whale, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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Below the Lovett Bay pool is a set of axe griinding grooves.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 2022
Weathered Aboriginal rock art in a shelter at the base of a low cliff in the lower Blue Mountains. It's not clear what the charcoal motifs represent.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2023
At least four weathered Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre along a dry creek in the lower Blue Mountains
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2023
An Aboriginal rock art site with five red hand stencils, in the lower Blue Mountains.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1981
The Lugnagappul Ogham Stones on the Dingle Peninsula, believed to mark warrior graves, feature two inscriptions which date back to 500-600 AD.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
An interesting Aboriginal engraving site near Lyre Trig in Kariong; it depicts what appears to be a copulating couple.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Copulating Couple, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
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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
- View site sketch