This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal rock art site in Kariong which has contact motifs (two sailing ships) and a single mundoe.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Contact Motif, Mundoe (foot), Sailing Ship
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1965
A small Aboriginal rock engraving site near the Bambara Trail, which includes a stingray and a fish
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1999
A very long but shallow overhang with a series of alcoves, the Banksia Shelter in the McPherson State Forest includes two large Aboriginal paintings in red ochre.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Goanna, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1988
An enormous Aboriginal engraving site, which was the first to be visited by Europeans in 1788. There are over 100 figures representing different scenes.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 116
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Axe, Basket, Club, Boomerang, Dingo, Echidna, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Hand, Jellyfish, Kangaroo, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Snake, Spear, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An unusual rock engraving site above Bantry Bay, which is within a low shelter. The figures include two echidnsas and boomerangs,
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Boomerang, Echidna, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
- Year first recorded: 1996
- View site sketch
Interpreted as a hunting scene, this small Aboriginal engraving site near the Cook Street Trail features a large emu/turtle, superimposed with a man (or hunter). Nearby sre two snakes.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Emu, Man, Snake, Turtle
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An overhang above Bantry Bay, which has sixteen well-preserved Aboriginal stencils in red ochre.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 16
- Motifs: Hand, Oval
- Year first recorded: 1977
Petroglyphs and pictographs in a small cave along the Barker Dam Trail in Joshua Tree National Park.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Lines, Man, Snake
The Barmishaw Stone rock art site on Ilkley Moor features 'ladders' - an unusual motif which consists of a pair of parallel grooves linked by perpendicular 'rungs'.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 35
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring
- Year first recorded: 1879
- View site sketch
Barnetts Shelter (SWA) has a small number of charcoal motifs in a sandstone overhang in Berowra Valley National Park.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2021
This group of three fish engravings enjoys fine water views. There are numerous Aboriginal heritage sites on the Barrenjoey Headland, including three listed Aboriginal archaeological sites, two middens and a cave.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish
One of the most spectacular shelters in the McPherson State Forest, the Basalt Hill Shelter (also known as the "Big Cave") contains over 100 Aboriginal rock art motifs.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 125
- Motifs: Bird, Club, Echidna, Eel, Emu, Fish, Man, Shield, Snake, Turtle
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
The Basin Aboriginal Site is a significant, signposted rock engraving site along the Basin Track. It has 53 figures, and interpretative signage.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 53
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Club, Boomerang, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Moon, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1964
- View site sketch
Numerous engraving and cave art sites along the Basin Track and Mackerel Track. Many are hidden just off the trails, but the signposted Basin Aboriginal Site is easily accessed.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 270
- Motifs: Basket, Boomerang, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Moon, Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
A small Aboriginal engraving site near the start of the Basin Trail, with a single fish
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 2017
Faint hand stencils in a low rock shelter above the Euro Track.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A small Aboriginal engraving site near the start of the Basin Trail, with a single eel
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A shark, two eels and large fish (originally thought to be a koala) on a rock platform in a valley above The Basin
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Shark
- Year first recorded: 1993
- View site sketch
A set of axe grinding grooves (AGG) along the creek, near the Basin Track.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
The Basin Track Ray is a deeply cut, distinct Aboriginal engravng described as an “indeterminate figure”.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1980
- View site sketch