This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal engraving site near the Milyerra Road Firetrail, which has two fish.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1995
A small Aboriginal engraving site with two kangaroos, three fish, an eel and a shield, which is part of a series of ten sites documented by Ian Sim near the Milyerra Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engravings of a kangaroo, head of a kangaroo and shield on scattered rock surfaces; they are part of a series of ten sites documented by Ian Sim near the Milyerra Trail
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
Minerva Pool in the Dharawal National Park is a sacred women's place for the Aboriginal Dharawal People.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Water Hole
- Year first recorded: 2011
The Mini Yengo site features a natural mound shaped like Mount Yengo; there are four engravings with the most distinct being a snake or serpent.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Snake
- Year first recorded: 1966
A panting in red ochre described as a "horned anthropomoph" near Mogo Creek.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1985
Over 44 motifs were originally recorded in this enormous overhang near Mogo Creek; only a handful can still be seen due to weathering and graffiti.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 44
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Dingo, Kangaroo, Kangaroo - Speared
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald, W.J Enright
- Year first recorded: 1986
Eight complete or partial hand stencils were recorded in this small shelter in 1981 (some stencils are quite faint, and two are affected by graffiti).
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site with an enormous (14m) whale and two men on a rock platform above Mona Vale Road.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Man, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Campbell sketch (whale) / McCarthy sketch (additonal figures)
An Aboriginal engraving site with a weathered figured of a woman, on a small rock ledge near Mona Vale Road
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Woman
- Year first recorded: 1981
A significant Aboriginal cultural site, the Moon Rock Aboriginal Site was declared an Aboriginal Place in 2016. The site has over 50 engravings, including tools and weapons used and to catch animals that were eaten in the area.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 86
- Motifs: Baiame, Bird, Club, Boomerang, Dolphin, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Track, Lines, Man, Moon, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Spear
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
An extensive group of engravings, the Mooney Mooney Aboriginal Area includes many kangaroos, two rainbow serpents and many other figures.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 45
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bandicoot, Boomerang, Fish, Goanna, Ibis, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Rainbow Serpent, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1976
- View site sketch [PDF]
A single indeterminate charcoal motif in a long shelter above Moore Creek.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2010
In a shelter along the Little Digger Track in Ku-ring-gai are five hand stencils in red ochre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2007
Axe Grinding Grooves above the Corrumbine Creek Firetrail, in Brisbane Water National Park.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stone circle
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure, Man
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim, Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1995
Five or six Aboriginal axe grinding grooves around a shallow waterhole along the Mount Banks Summit Walking Track.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 1988
Over fifty Aboriginal grinding grooves along Explorers Ridge near Mount Banks, which was described as a major workshop site.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 55
- Year first recorded: 1980
A complex Aboriginal engraving in Mount Colah, which includes five men (one a post-contact figure), a giant snake and at least 15 mundoes.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Vandalised
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 25
- Motifs: Club, Contact Motif, Dots / Pits, Leg / Legs, Man, Snake
- Year first recorded: 1980
Weathered Aboriginal cave art in red ochre, in a shelter near Lyrebird Gully in Mount Colah
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2023
Two adjacent indigenous heritage sites along Mount Irvine Road near Bilpin. One has axe grinding grooves, and the other hand stencils.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976