This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Along the Shark Rock Ridge track is an Aboriginal engraving of a whale; the enormous figure is ten metres in length, with a goanna and whale inside the whale.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Goanna, Man, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Shaws Creek Aboriginal Place contains a small Aboriginal engraving, which has two kangaroos and five kangaroo tracks - and an additional carving likely to be European. There are also multiple axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Kangaroo Track
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1948
A long rock shelter with spectacular Aboriginal cave paintings in red ochre. The four large figures are said to represent quails.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Bird, Hand
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1985
Aboriginal engraving of a single shield with two transverse lines, to the east of St Ives Showground.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Shield
- Year first recorded: 1980
An overview of 13 Stone Age rock art sites on Ilkley Moor in Yorkshire, including some of the most significant carved stones.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 400
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring, Lines, Swastika
The Site of the Emus (or Bird Cave) in McPherson State Forest, a shelter with Aboriginal rock art, gets its name from three emus drawn in red ochre.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Emu, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Lines
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1978
At the end of the Slade Lookout Track is "fake" engraving of an emu or waterfowl, and a lizard that is almost directly underneath the bird.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Emu, Goanna, Swamp Hen
A solitary footprint on a rock platform above the Slippery Dip Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1992
- View site sketch
An unusual depiction of Baiame at an Aboriginal engraving site above Cottage Point Road. The figure has two horns, and is holding a shield and a dilly bag.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Basket, Boomerang, Deity, Fish, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1894
- View site sketch
Aboriginal Shelter with Art (SWA) near Smiths Creek, which has multiple figures drawn in charcoal
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2017
An Aboriginal engraving site above Smiths Creek, the large rock platform has a pair of clearly-cut emus, a large fish and a shield.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Emu, Fish, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1989
- View site sketch
A small but interesting Aboriginal engraving site just below Cottage Point Road, with over 20 figures including two men (or deities) and two women, one of whom has caught a fish.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Club, Deity, Fish, Kangaroo, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Snake, Spear, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Three vertical Aboriginal rock engravings of fish, above Smiths Creek
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 1964
Sandstone shelter along Smiths Creek with three fish drawn in charcoal.
- Quality: 4/5
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1943
An Aboriginal engraving of a goanna or lizard, just below Cottage Point Road
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Goanna
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
An Aboriginal engraving site depicting a man with a long body and head-dress.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Year first recorded: 1977
An Aboriginal engraving site in Cottage Point with two large fish, and a man with upstretched arms.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Man
- Year first recorded: 1978
Three very distinct Aboriginal hand stencils and a fish in red ochre, on two adjacent rock overhangs along Smiths Creek.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Fish, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Deep shelter above Smiths Creek, with Aboriginal cave art (two men painted in red ochre)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
Shelter near Smiths Creek, which has a charcoal drawing of a snake
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Snake
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021