This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
An unusual Aboriginal rock art site on the side of a tall cliff face, which has two faces and what appears to be a snake.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Head, Snake
- Year first recorded: 2022
Shallow shelter on a ridge off Mount Kariong, which has a number of Aboriginal charcoal paintings.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Emu, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1999
A Daramulan figure on a spur off Mt Kariong; it's the last of five Aboriginal engraving sites documented by Ian Sim.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Daramulan, Deity
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1966
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A complex Aboriginal engraving site on a spur off Mt Kariong; it includes four men in a row, fish, kangaroos and a dingo.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 17
- Motifs: Dingo, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1966
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An Aboriginal engraving site on a spur off Mt Kariong with a very unusual one-legged man (as well as a second man and koala).
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Koala, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1966
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An isolated and hard-to-reach Aboriginal engraving site in Mt Ku-ring-gai, which has three men side-by-side.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Man, Snake
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
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Well-preserved red ochre paintings in two rock shelters on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Manning, in Yengo National Park. The 45 motifs include horned anthropomorphs, echidnas and dingoes.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 45
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Dingo, Echidna, Eel, Hand, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Snake
- Originally recorded by: N. W. G. Macintosh
- Year first recorded: 1965
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Seventeen Aboriginal sites located and around Mount Murray Anderson. They include multiple deity figures, two enormous whales and some stone arrangements.
- Quality: 4/5
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stone arrangement, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 64
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Boomerang, Deity, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Man, Oval, Shield, Stingray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
A ten-foot high Aboriginal engraving of Baiame in a commanding position, at the end of the Mount Murray Anderson ridge.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Deity
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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An Aboriginal engraving of a deity on a sloping rock below Mount Murray Anderson. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Deity
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1959
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An Aboriginal engraving of an echidna. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Echidna
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
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An Aboriginal engraving site depicting four leaping kangaroos on a huge rock platform below Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A weathered Aboriginal engraving of a man holding a shield and boomerang. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
A series of Aboriginal engraving sites to the south-west of Mount Murray Anderson, which includes two large whales, a man-emu composite figure and a stone arrangement.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Boomerang, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Stingray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Fish
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A compact Aboriginal engraving site that includes two men and four shields. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Emu, Man, Oval, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
- View site sketch
A very weathered kangaroo at the edge of one of the rock platforms along the Mount Murray Anderson ridge.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
An interesting waterhole to the south-west of Mount Murray Anderson, with multiple overlapping Aboriginal engravings and axe-grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Boomerang, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2017
Under a small rock overhang near Mount Olive are some well-preserved cave paintings, including a wallaby and some indeterminate figures.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1992