This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A remote and small shelter above Stokes Creek in Dhawaral National Park which has about ten weathered charcoal figures.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Man
- Year first recorded: 1982
- View site sketch (human figure)
A small shelter with Aboriginal rock art above Stokes Creek in Dhawaral National Park; they include a dog/dingo and two birds.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Bird, Dingo, Dog/Wolf, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2001
A significant Aboriginal site along Stonequarry Creek near Picton, which has 120 grinding grooves in three clusters.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 1970
An isolated shelter in Sun Valley (Valley Heights) which protects over 20 Aboriginal stencils in red ochre, including a boomerang motif.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Boomerang, Hand, Lines
- Year first recorded: 1958
Located in the Monument Valley and accessible on a Navajo tour, the Anasazi Suns Eye petroglyph site features a number of bighorn sheep.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Sheep
A tall and shallow overhang in the Blue Mountains, the rock art in the Sunshine Shelter consists of parallel lines in red ochre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Lines
- Originally recorded by: William Moon
- Year first recorded: 2022
This sacred cave depicts generations of markings and drawings, with 857 motifs (mainly handprints) – the largest assemblage of motifs of any currently known sites.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 857
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Boomerang, Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1978
An Aboriginal engraving of a deity (probably Baiame) on a large rock platform below the Taber trig station
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a man or deity on a large rock platform below the Taber trig station.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engraving of a seal, sea lion or dugong, near the edge of a large rock platform below Taber Trig
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Fish, Seal
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A long and deep shelter near the Taber Trig, with charcoal drawings (documented by Campbell) and red hand stencils
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Baiame, Deity, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
A small Aboriginal engraving site west of Taber Trig. Figures include a kangaroo, fish and six mundoes,
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot), Oval
- Year first recorded: 1975
Shelter with a single Aboriginal charcoal drawing in Taffys Gully.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site on a low saddle along the track to Taffys Rock, which has two whales and a wallaby.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
The Temple Mountain Pictograph Panel features significant Native American rock art, including Barrier Canyon Style and Fremont-era figures.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Deity, Dog/Wolf
A shelter near the Terraborra North Ridge, which has multiple charcoal figures (including two kangaroos)
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
- Year first recorded: 2019
A shelter below a weathered cliff-line near the Terraborra North Ridge has figures in both charcoal and white.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2019
A spectacular Aboriginal rock art site near the Terraborra North Ridge, with a long panel containing over 30 charcoal figures.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 36
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Indeterminate figure, Man, Woman
- Year first recorded: 2019
Two adjoining Aboriginal engraving sites near the Terraborra North Trail, depicting an emu, bird and anthropomorphic figure.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Elk, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
- View site sketch
The Hunting Site and Lyrebird Site are two Aboriginal engraving sites in Terrey Hills, One represents a hunting scene, and the other is named after an engraving of a lyrebird.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 46
- Motifs: Bird Track, Boomerang, Deer, Echidna, Kangaroo, Lines, Lyrebird, Man, Mundoe (foot), Possum, Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1941