Indigenous Site Search

This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.

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1X3A7919

McLean St Emu Hunt

A large Aboriginal engraving site in Ingleside with which has over 24 motifs, the largest being an emu. McCarthy described the site as an emu hunt.
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Site condition: Good
  • Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 24
  • Motifs: Boomerang, Emu, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Stingray
  • Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
  • Year first recorded: 1899
  • View site sketch
1X3A7892

McLean St Four Men engravings

A small Aboriginal engraving site in Ingleside, which has two pairs of men in a scene described by McCarthy as representing fishermen returning to camp.
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Site condition: Good, Siltation
  • Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 6
  • Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Man
  • Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
  • Year first recorded: 1899
  • View site sketch
AWAT6782-LR

Snakes Cave

A shelter with spectacular Aboriginal drawings in the McPherson State Forest (Warre Warren Aboriginal Area). Figures include a shark, snakes, macropods and an echidna in charcoal, red ochre and white ochre.
  • Quality: 4.5/5
  • Site condition: Good
  • Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 39
  • Motifs: Basket, Echidna, Kangaroo, Shark, Snake, Wombat
  • Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
  • Year first recorded: 1993
1X3A1159-LR

Mellong Range Shelter with Art

A complex Aboriginal art shelter in the Mellong Range, which has multiple stencils including hands and a boomerang and human figures in charcoal and white ochre.
  • Quality: 4.5/5
  • Site condition: Good
  • Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
  • Number of motifs: 40
  • Motifs: Arm, Boomerang, Foot, Hand, Man, Sunburst
  • Originally recorded by: Mark Roebuck
  • Year first recorded: 2023
1X3A9594

Metheringhams Hill Aboriginal Site

A large rock platform above the Old Northern Road, which has five Aboriginal engravings including a large man and koala/Daramulan figure.
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Site condition: Good, Weathered
  • Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motifs: Daramulan, Deity, Kangaroo, Man
  • Originally recorded by: R Taplin, Bob Pankhurst
  • Year first recorded: 1977
Milltown Rock Art

Milltown Rock Art

A long boulder in a Milltown field near Dingle features Bronze Age rock art with numerous cup-marks and cup-and-circle motifs.
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Site condition: Good
  • Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 22
  • Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring
awat7898-lr

Aboriginal engravings along the Milyerra Road Trail (Brisbane Water)

Multiple rock engraving sites are located along and around the Milyerra Road Fire Trail in Kariong (in the Brisbane Water National Park)
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 87
  • Motifs: Bird, Eel, Emu, Fish, Hand, Kangaroo, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Whale, Woman
  • Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • Year first recorded: 1969