This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
An Aboriginal engraving site near Mount Penang with an eel, shield and indeterminate figure.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Eel, Indeterminate figure, Shield
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1965