This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A signposted rock engraving site in Bouddi National Park, the North West Ridge Aboriginal Site has four figures - but only a 4m orca is still visible.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Dolphin, Stingray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1994
An example of a scarred tree in the Blue Mountains, which has been burnt in the 2019/2020 bushfires.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Fire damage
- Scarred Tree
Multiple sets of shallow grinding grooves on a rock platform near the Oaks Trail
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 10
- Year first recorded: 2022
Aboriginal rock art site along the Oaks Trail in the Blue Labyrinth area of the Blue Mountains, which has a pair of kangaroo tracks and a few scattered grinding grooves.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Emu Track, Kangaroo Track
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1958
The Circles Aborginal rock art site along the Oaks Trail has an unusual engraving of concentric circles and a set of axe grinding grooves. An Aboriginal stone arrangement has been destroyed.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Partially Destroyed
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Circle
An unusual and well-preserved Aboriginal rock art site above O'Hares Creek in Dhawaral National Park. It has multiple panels of charcoal motifs, many of them depicting human figures.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 22
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man, Woman
- Year first recorded: 1989
A large Aboriginal rock art shelter near O'Hares Creek in Dhawaral National Park, which has over 50 motifs in charcoal. They include many birds/emus as well as human figures.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 62
- Motifs: Echidna, Eel, Emu, Kangaroo, Man, Snake, Woman
- Year first recorded: 1978
A sacred Aboriginal engraving site in Somersby, which has a large Daramulan figure.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Mundoe (foot), Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1945
- View site sketch
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
A small Aboriginal rock art shelter in Ourimbah State Forest which resembles a breaking wave. It has three charcoal motifs.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1975
Two adjacent shelters with Aboriginal rock art in the Ourimbah State Forest; the main shelter has over 40 motifs in charcoal and red ochre.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Goanna, Hand, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man, Snake, Woman
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1975
A small Aboriginal rock art shelter above Ourimbah Creek which has multiple motifs on the ceiling in charcoal and red ochre, including a number of human figures.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure, Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1960
A large Aboriginal rock art shelter which features three sets of "dancing men" in charcoal and white ochre, as well as a bandicoot and indeterminate figures.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Bandicoot, Indeterminate figure, Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1960
An Aboriginal rock art shelter above Ourimbah Creek with multiple motifs in charcoal and white and red ochre (including a large macropod).
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1960
An unusual Aboriginal rock art site with a human-like figure engraved on a vertical rock.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Man
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2016
Two small, adjacent shelters with Aboriginal rock art including two eels in white ochre.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Eel, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1979