This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A sloping rock platform near Debenham Road South, which has about 10 Aboriginal engravings (including an emu and multiple fish).
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Siltation
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Emu, Fish, Lines
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
A significant Aboriginal engraving site in Somersby, which includes a large bird of ceremonial significance and an anthropomorphic "spirit figure".
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 28
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Dingo, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1945
- View site sketch / detailed McCarthy sketches
A large rock platform near Debenham Road South, which has a single Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Siltation
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
Aboriginal rock art comprising multiple weathered hand stencils and two white lines in a low shelter.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Hand, Lines
- Year first recorded: 2010
Small group of weathered Aboriginal engravings near the start of the Duckponds Trail in Marramarra National Park
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1979
An Aboriginal engraving site on a long ledge in Oxford Falls, which depicts five wallabies or kangaroos.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site on a small rock platform in Oxford Falls, which includes a shield, kangaroo and some indeterminate figures.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
An interesting Aboriginal rock art site in Yengo NP, near Pademelon Road. The long shelter has both white stencils and red ochre drawings.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Boomerang, Deity, Hand, Lines, Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 2019
Two adjacent Aboriginal rock art shelters in Yengo National Park, which have hand stencils as well as figures drawn in charcoal, white and red ochre.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Hand, Kangaroo, Lines, Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 2019
A rounded Aboriginal rock shelter in Yengo National Park near Pademelon Road. It has multiple hand stencils in white and red ochre, and some red ochre drawings.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Arm, Hand, Lines, Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 2019
A small Aboriginal engraving site in Faulconbridge, which includes two men and a leaping kangaroo, as well as many axe grinding grooves. It was likely a ceremonial site.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Partially Destroyed
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of an indeterminate figure, above Patonga Drive and near a large whale engraving.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2019
- View site sketch
A few hand stencils in a long sandstone overhang on Porto Ridge, near Peak Hill.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2012
Five mundoes (of which only two are now visible) on an overgrown rock platform on Porto Ridge near Peak Hill.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
Multiple piles of stones on a small rock platform are likely to be an Aboriginal stone arrangement.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed
- Stone arrangement
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2012
A small Aboriginal engraving site along the Peats Crater Trail in the Muogamarra Nature Reserve.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Bird, Kangaroo
The largest figure at this Muogamarra Aboriginal engraving site is a manta ray; nearby are five men, a woman, a kangaroo rat and a very clearly-carved bird.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Fish, Fishing Line, Man, Manta Ray, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
A large whale engraving next to the Peats Crater Trail in Muogamarra Nature Reserve. Nearby is a wallaby and two circles (which may represent squid or food for the whale).
- Quality: 4/5
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Octopus, Oval, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
An interesting Aboriginal engraving site in Calga, which includes hunting weapons and two squid, and a very large number of grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Partially Destroyed, Siltation
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Bird Track, Club, Jellyfish, Lines
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1944
- View site sketch
A low shelter with a complex panel of Aboriginal rock art, primarily in charcoal but with one red ochre fiigure. Most of the motifs are wallabies or kangaroos.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Koala, Man
- Year first recorded: 1984