This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A large whale engraving on a vertical sandstone rock near Sailors Bay.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Year first recorded: 1970
Single Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo on a rock platform near the Salvation Loop Track.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 1988
Aboriginal engravings of four kangaroos, a wombat and what looks like an emu on a rock platform near the Salvation Loop Track.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Emu, Kangaroo, Wombat
- Year first recorded: 1988
One of the most spectacular Aboriginal rock art sites in Sydney's north, with red ochre and charcoal drawings across two adjacent shelters.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Deity, Goanna, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
- Year first recorded: 2021
One of the finest examples of easily accessible Anasazi rock art, the Sand Island Petroglyphs panel in Utah contains Native Indian rock art which ranges from 300 to 3,000 years old.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 300
- Motifs: Hand, Horse, Kokopelli, Man, Sheep, Woman
A sandstone shelter near The Scenic Road which has a panel of Aboriginal rock art, including a bird, part of a kangaroo and many indeterminate figures.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1994
A single Aboriginal hand stencil in a small shelter below The Scenic Road
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2022
An Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo on a small rock platform near Scout Camp Road.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
Aboriginal engraving of a fish or an eel, above a waterfall at Kariong Scout Camp.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Eel, Fish
- Year first recorded: 2021
A lesser-known site featuring seven shields, located below the "Seven Rabbits" (Woy Woy) site
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Boomerang, Indeterminate figure, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
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A small Aboriginal rock art site with two fish drawn in charcoal.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 1980
A tall shelter in Shakeys Forest Reserve in Mangrove Mountain, which has multiple panels of Aboriginal drawings in charcoal.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 25
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Koala, Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1988
An Aboriginal rock engraving of an indeterminate object, on top of a large rock near Currawong Beach.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1986
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A small Aboriginal engraving site, with two shields and a small man with bent legs.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1960
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Below the Shark Rock Ridge in dense scrub is an Aboriginal engraving of a "protective deity, holding up a fish with the right hand"
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity, Fish, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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An Aboriginal engraving site with an adult and young emu, on a small rock platform just above the Pacific Motorway.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: -1
- Motifs: Emu
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1960
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Shark Rock Ridge has a series of Aboriginal engraving sites, most of which were documented by Campbell in 1899 and McCarthy in 1960. A few shelters with art and additional engraving sites were recorded more recently.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 52
- Motifs: Bird, Boomerang, Deity, Emu, Fish, Goanna, Indeterminate figure, Jellyfish, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Rat, Man, Oval, Shield, Stingray, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
One of several Aboriginal engraving sites along Shark Rock Ridge. It includes a large stingray, multiple fish, emus, kangaroos and kangaroo rats and a man (who may be hunting or fishing).
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 22
- Motifs: Club, Boomerang, Emu, Fish, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Rat, Man, Oval, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An Aboriginal engraving site along Shark Rock Ridge, which may represent "a hunting incident in the mythology or a totemic ritual". It has 14 figures, including two "koala bears" which resemble a Daramulan.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Basket, Bird, Fish, Koala, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A ritual or mythological Aboriginal engraving site along Shark Rock Ridge. The six figures include a man with large and distinct mouth.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Fish, Goanna, Indeterminate figure, Jellyfish, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch