This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Speared shark (partly damaged) above the Basin Track on a low rock platform.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Partially Destroyed
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Shark
- Year first recorded: 1961
- View site sketch
Along the Basin Track is a fairly deeply-cut stingray (or skate), on a small rock surrounded by dense scrub.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Stingray
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a single fish next to the Basin Trail.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1983
A small Aboriginal engraving engraving site next to the Basin Trail, with man and snake
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man, Snake
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A signposted site on Kings Tableland, Battleship Tops is known for its unusual rock formations - but is also an Aboriginal rock art site. Although badly damaged, traces of red ochre figures can be seen.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Fire damage, Graffiti damage, Vandalised
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Emu, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1970
An Aboriginal engraving of a turtle at Ben Buckler Point - the only remaining figure from a small site which had five carvings.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Partially Destroyed, Re-grooved
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Eel, Shield, Snake, Turtle, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A very weathered Aboriginal engraving of an eel (and axe grinding grooves) above a waterfall near the Berkeley Trail
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Eel
- Year first recorded: 1975
Wide and deep shelter above Berowra Creek, which has an Aboriginal hand stencil and charcoal drawings.
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Motifs: Eel, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2021
Two Aboriginal engraving sites on the same ridge in Berowra, which have a large Baiame figure and an incomplete whale.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Baiame, Club, Deity, Shield, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1960
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A complex Aboriginal engraving site on a ridge in Berowra, which was described as representing a hunting scene. The figures include four men, two wallabies and many fish.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 23
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1960
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Single mundoe next to Berowra Track (Apple Tree Bay)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 2001
An Aboriginal engraving site near Berowra Waters, with an arm on a vertical rock surface.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Arm
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1982
A small Aboriginal Shelter with Art near Berowra Waters. There is a panel with a series of men in charcoal, and two red ochre motifs.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure, Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1982
Multiple fish engraved on a vertical rock surface near Berowra Waters, including a fish within a larger fish.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1989
An Aboriginal engraving site on a vertical rock near Berowra Waters, with two fish and a figure which may be a seal.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Seal
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1982
An Aboriginal rock art site near Berowra Waters with what appears to be the lower part of a human figure, and multiple fish.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish, Man
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2018
A long rock shelter near Franks Gully in the Berowra Valley National Park contains a number of cave paintings, and a shield engraved above the cave
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Possum, Shield, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1984
- View site sketch
The three Shark Rock Aboriginal engraving sites near Berowra Waters include a shark and eel, a kangaroo, and a human figure on a vertical rocks.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Circle, Eel, Kangaroo, Man, Shark
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1961
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal rock art site near Berowra Waters with three charcoal shields in a low shelter.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Shield
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1982
The Berry Island Aboriginal engraving features a large sea creature, likely from Dreamtime stories, and other smaller motifs.
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Boomerang, Circle, Crescent, Marine Creature, Shell
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch