This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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), Mundowa (spirit footprint), Oval, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1904
- View site sketch
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 of a large deity figure (possibly Baiame) below the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track on a small rock platform.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity, Fish
- Year first recorded: 2023
An Aboriginal engraving site below 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
- Grinding Bowl, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Bandicoot, Circle, Deity, Echidna, Man
- Year first recorded: 1984
Several vertical Aboriginal engravings next to the Mount Ku-ring-gai Track, including a kangaroo and pair of eels.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Eel, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2017
A long and deep shelter above the Mount Ku-ring-gai Track which may have been a ceremonial site; it includes numerous koradji figures in red ochre and a long snake in charcoal.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Boomerang, Kangaroo, Koradji, Man, Snake
- Year first recorded: 2021
A long shelter above the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track, which has several Aboriginal hand stencils and a kangaroo drawn in charcoal.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1983
An Aboriginal rock art site next to the Mount Ku-ring-gai Track with a single fish in red ochre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 2017
A large Aboriginal rock art shelter near the Mount Ku-ring-gai Track; it has over 50 figures (many very weathered) which include a man in white ochre, many hand and arm stencils and a red ochre fish.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 50
- Motifs: Arm, Boomerang, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man, Snake
- Year first recorded: 1983
- View site sketch
A small boulder near the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track with very weathered figures in charcoal, red ochre and white ochre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2001
A boulder near the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track which has several Aboriginal axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2001
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
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch