This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A large dome-shaped rock near the base of Mount Yengo with emu tracks and some weathered Aboriginal engravings, and grinding grooves.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Emu Track, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1994
Very weathered Aboriginal hand stencil on the base of Mount Yengo.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2018
A long shelter with Aboriginal rock art, including hand and arm stencils, and tally marks.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Arm, Hand, Lines, Tally Marks
- Year first recorded: 2018
Two adjacent shelters with Aboriginal rock art in a gully of Big Yengo Creek; they have weathered hand stencils and drawings.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Hand, Lines
- Year first recorded: 2018
A small site sandwiched between the old Pacific Highway and the railway line and accessed by an unsigned track. The site features three figures and a very long line of mundoes.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 74
- Motifs: Baiame, Basket, Boomerang, Fish, Kangaroo Track, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1904
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A small Aboriginal rock engraving site partly destroyed by the construction of the F3 freeway. It has five figures, including two intaglio boomerangs.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Boomerang, Kangaroo Track, Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1981
Aboriginal rock art including charcoal drawings and red ochre hand stencils in a long shelter below the old Pacific Highway
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal engraving site above the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track with a giant bandicoot, echidna, three men and what may be an ancestral figure.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Bandicoot, Deity, Echidna, Man
- Year first recorded: 1984
An Aboriginal engraving site with a single fish, in thick scrub near the Tunnel Trail.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1973
An Aboriginal engraving of half a man, who has been speared in the foot. It's on a small rock platform above Mullet Creek.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Leg / Legs, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An Aboriginal engraving site along a small creek above the Tunnel Trail, which has multiple figures and some axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Oval
- Year first recorded: 1973
An Aboriginal engraving site on Taffys Rock, which consists of a line (50m in length) of 44 footprints around the summit.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 44
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
An impressive collection of motifs in red, white and black at the Mungana Rock Art site (one of two publicly accessible Aboriginal art sites in the Chillagoe area). The art surrounded by high limestone cliffs.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Bird Track, Indeterminate figure, Shield, Snake
A "bulbous head" (one of only four recorded around Sydney) and a second weathered figure near the end of Kimmerikong Ridge in Muogamarra National Park.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Bulbous Headed Man, Head, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An Aboriginal engraving site within the Muogamarra Nature Reserve, which was thought to depict a fishing expedition. It has over 20 figures.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 21
- Motifs: Boomerang, Canoe, Fish, Fishing Line, Kangaroo, Man, Seal, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A unique Aboriginal engraving site in the Muogamarra Nature Reserve, which depicts a man and woman copulating, along with four additional men.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Copulating Couple, Fish, Hand, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An Aboriginal engraving site in the Muogamarra Nature Reserve which has over 20 figures depicting mammals and fish commonly found in the area.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 21
- Motifs: Dingo, Dolphin, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A complex Aboriginal engraving site with 42 figures first documented by W.D. Campbell in six groups. The figures include a speared man and many animals and hunting tools.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 42
- Motifs: Axe, Bird, Club, Boomerang, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Manta Ray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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The Whale Feast site is a "remarkable" Aboriginal engraving site in Muogamarra Nature Reserve. It has over 60 figures, including a Baiame ancestral being and a line of 31 human figures below a large whale.
- Site condition: Good, Partially Destroyed
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 69
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Club, Deity, Dolphin, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Whale, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A shelter with Aboriginal rock art above Murrays Run, which contains charcoal and red ochre figures.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Goanna, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1967
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