This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A significant Aboriginal engraving site at Cottage Point, with two deity (Baiame) figures. Both have a rayed headress and vertical stripes on their bodies.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site in Cottage Point which has two men, one with a headdress holding a boomerang (who may be a deity) and the other with a club across his waist.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Deity, Man
- Year first recorded: 1978
Newspaper Rock is the most impressive petroglyph site in Snow Canyon State Park, based on the quantity, quality and density of motifs.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Circle, Lines, Man, Sheep
Sinking Ship Rock is a large and distinctive boulder in Snow Canyon State Park, which has one side covered in petroglyphs.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Circle, Lines
At the end of a long and tall slot canyon in Snow Canyon State Park is a set of diverse Fremont culture petroglyphs.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Circle, Foot, Lines, Sheep
An Aboriginal engraving of a death adder on an industrial property in Somersby.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Snake
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1946
- View site sketch
A large number of axe grinding grooves, in and around the creek above Somersby Falls.
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1974
An Aboriginal engraving site on an industrial property in Somersby, which has four figures including a man and kangaroo.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1946
- View site sketch
A small charcoal frieze with three men in a small and low shelter above the eastern arm of South West Arm Creek.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1998
An enormous shelter named from it's location near The Sphinx, this site has 91 motifs including charcoal paintings and hand stencils.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 91
- Motifs: Deity, Hand, Kangaroo, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews
- Year first recorded: 1896
An Aboriginal rock art site in the lower Blue Mountains with a unique deity or spirit figure drawn in white ochre.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Deity
- Year first recorded: 2024
A significant Aboriginal rock art site in the MacDonald River district, Spirits Cave was extensively documented by Ian Sim. The shelter contains 186 motifs, including multiple deity figures and what was thought to be a Rainbow Serpent.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 186
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Arm, Axe, Bird, Club, Boomerang, Deity, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Hand, Kangaroo, Lyrebird, Man, Owl, Rainbow Serpent, Snake, Turtle, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
Spirits Rock is a signposted Aboriginal engraving site at the end of the Cowan Trail, which has a number of figures, including a large and detailed engraving of the Baiame deity.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Baiame, Boomerang, Deity, Fish, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
- View site sketch
Next to the Pacific Motorway (M1), the Spring Gully (or Cockle Creek) site has 83 engraved figures across multiple locations.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 97
- Motifs: Bird, Boomerang, Echidna, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Stingray, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1959
- View site sketch
A small shelter with multiple red hand stencils in North Wahroonga
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1979
A very weathered Aboriginal rock art site near Springwood Ridge, with charcoal motifs.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2024
A shelter near Springwood Ridge with at least five weathered Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre .
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1995
Water channels that appear to be of Aboriginal origin, below the STEP Track in South Turramurra.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Water Hole
- Year first recorded: 2021
Small panel of Aboriginal rock art in a shallow shelter above Stills Creek near Crosslands. There are two hand stencils and multiple charcoal drawings.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Fish, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1983
A shallow sandstone shelter in Dhawaral National Park at the base of a tall cliff with Aboriginal rock art including anthropomorphic figures and macropods.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 25
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Contact Motif, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man, Woman
- Year first recorded: 1995