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 Mellong, with what is thought to be a contact motif depicting a horse.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Contact Motif, Horse
- Originally recorded by: William Moon
- Year first recorded: 2002
A large, weathered charcoal Aboriginal art figure in a low shelter in the Mellong Range.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Mark Roebuck
- Year first recorded: 2023
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
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
A number of Aboriginal axe grinding grooves at the base of a waterfall, near MIdde Harbour Creek
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2021
Faint Aboriginal charcoal drawing in a shallow shelter above Middle Harbour.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider, Margrit Koettig
- Year first recorded: 1990
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
Traversed by the Milyerra Road Fire Trail, a large, tesselated rock platform contains a number of weathered engravings
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 44
- Motifs: Bird, Eel, Emu, Fish, Goanna, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
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
A large rock platform near the Milyerra Trail, with engravings of a 40' whale and 10' kangaroo.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
A rock ledge with multiple Aboriginal engravings, axe grinding grooves and a waterhole near the Milyerra Trail
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Bird, Fish, Goanna, Oval, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
Three unusual motifs at an Aboriginal engraving site above the Milyerra Trail. They include a large turtle and two figures with head-dresses.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Daramulan, Deity, Man, Turtle
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo; one of a series of ten sites documented by Ian Sim near the Milyerra Trail
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a large kangaroo near the Milyerra Trail.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
A very weathered Aboriginal engraving of a man, on a sloping rock. It is one of a series of ten sites near the Milyerra Trail documented by Ian Sim.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1967
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site of a man with upstretched arms near the Milyerra Road Firetrail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
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