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 above Murrays Run which depicts three human figures, and a weathered motif described as a horse.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Contact Motif, Horse, Man
- Originally recorded by: Margrit Koettig
- Year first recorded: 1983
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A shallow rock shelter above Murrays Run which has Aboriginal rock art, including multiple panels with wallabies or kangaroos.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 26
- Motifs: Echidna, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Margrit Koettig
- Year first recorded: 1983
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An Aboriginal rock art shelter near Murrays Run with very faint, white lines.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
A ridge-top shelter above Murrays Run Road, which has at least 20 motifs inluding stencils of hands and a boomerang, and red ochre figures.
- Quality: 4/5
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Arm, Hand, Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1994
A dark overhang near Murrays Run, which contains a painting of a wombat (other charcoal figures no longer visible)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Emu, Man, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: Margrit Koettig
- Year first recorded: 1979
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A sacred and significant Aboriginal rock art shelter in the Burragorang Valley with very weathered motifs.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Foot, Hand, Plant / Twig
- Year first recorded: 1910
Described as an "animal scene", the 15 engravings on a rock platform along the Myall Trail in Mt Ku-ring-gai includes a number of wallabies and kangaroos
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 16
- Motifs: Club, Echidna, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
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A long Shelter with Art along the Myall Trail, which includes over 80 motifs drawn in charcoal
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 80
- Year first recorded: 1988
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Boomerang on a long rock ledge below the Myall Trail.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Boomerang
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Two leaping kangaroos, part of an emu and with rays on his head forms part of what may represent a hunting scene near the Myall Trail
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Vandalised
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Emu, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
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Along the Myall Trail are a number of Aboriginal heritage sites, including engravings and cave art, that reflect a fruitful hunting ground.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 107
- Motifs: Bird, Club, Echidna, Emu, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1976
Two kangaroos on either side of a rock shelter; one with entrails coming out of its stomach
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Kangaroo - Speared
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
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An interesting Aboriginal engraving site near Myoora Road, which includes a man holding a boomerang, and many animal figures.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Vandalised
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 19
- Motifs: Bird, Eel, Fish, Man, Platypus
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1969
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Aboriginal engraving site on a ridge above Narara Creek, with a bird and fish.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Bird, Fish
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1991
Two adjacent shelters at the base of a tall cliff-line above Narara Creek, which have Aboriginal charcoal drawings.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Eel, Indeterminate figure, Man
- Year first recorded: 2020
An Aboriginal engraving of a koala on a sloping rock platform above Narara Creek.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Koala
- Year first recorded: 2020
A single figure of a man engraved on a small rock platform above Narara Creek.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Year first recorded: 2021
Small Aboriginal engraving of a wallaby, which has no front legs.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1991
Above the Gosford Railway Dams in Narara is a long wave-like shelter with a significant amount of Aboriginal art, in white and red ochre, and charcoal.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 80
- Motifs: Bird, Hand, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man, Tally Marks
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1974
Above the Gosford Railway Dams in Narara is an Aboriginal engraving site which includes a speared man, eel and fish.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Rainbow Serpent
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1974
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