This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Multiple sets of axe grinding grooves on two unnamed creeks below Peats Ridge Road.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 1996
Originally called Wards Cave by Bob Pankhurst, this small shelter contains Aboriginal rock art including a kangaroo, deity figure and hand stencils.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Deity, Hand, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1965
A small shelter with remains of a timbergetters' camp, which has over ten Aboriginal hand and arm stencils.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Fire damage
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 16
- Motifs: Arm, Hand
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1965
An interesting Aboriginal engraving site in Calga, which includes hunting weapons and two squid, and a very large number of grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Partially Destroyed, Siltation
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Bird Track, Club, Jellyfish, Lines
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1944
- View site sketch
A low shelter with a complex panel of Aboriginal rock art, primarily in charcoal but with one red ochre fiigure. Most of the motifs are wallabies or kangaroos.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Koala, Man
- Year first recorded: 1984
A weathered cave painting of a kangaroo in red ochre, below Peebles Road.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
A circular pothole surrounded by over 20 axe grinding grooves, near the Peeble Trail just outside Marramarra National Park. The rock platform also has some very weathered Aboriginal engravings.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Grinding Bowl, Rock engraving
- Motifs: Emu, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2016
Three axe grinding grooves in the creek bed above Freezing Hole (near Peggys Pool).
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1987
A rock shelter in Dhawaral National Park oith Aboriginal charcoal drawings which include a vertical motif and a sinuous figure resembling a snake.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Shield, Snake
A signposted petroglyph site Picture Canyon Natural and Cultural Preserve near Flagstaff, which has over hundred motifs scattered on multiple boulders.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 150
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Lines, Man, Sheep, Spiral
An Aboriginal rock art site near a tributary of Piles Creek in Kariong, which has a long anthropomorphic figure and over 60 grinding grooves.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Hand
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
An Aboriginal engraving of a fish on a small rock platform, south of the Mooney Mooney Aboriginal area.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 1970
An Aboriginal engraving site with a whale (or shark), man and kangaroo near a tributary of Pile Creek. It may depict a "whale magic" scene.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a large kangaroo near the Pipeline Trail in Popran NP.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1977
Grooved water channel and axe grinding grooves on a rock platform near the Pogson Trig Firetrail.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Water Hole
- Year first recorded: 2021
A long rock overhang which contains numerous art motifs, including a stencilled hand, two macropod figures and some unidentified lines.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2005
First recorded by the 1st Hornsby Scout Group, this Aboriginal engraving site depicts a man and his pregnant wife.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
A weathered Aboriginal engraving of two wallabies (or kangaroos) on a sloping rock platform
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 1967
A small Aboriginal engraving site which depicts "a fleeing kangaroo, and an emu with 2 chicks, a "common site in the locality". The site has extensive views.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Emu, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1945
- View site sketch
A solitary Aboriginal engraving of what may be a kangaroo, or a marine creature. The site is near the head of the Powder Works Valley.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1984
- View site sketch