This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal engraving of a circle, carved on a small boulder near the Topham Trail.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Oval
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
A fairly distinct Aboriginal engraving of an emu, near the Topham Trail
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Emu
- Year first recorded: 1987
A small rock platform near the Topham Trail with a very weathered Aboriginal engraving of a small man.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 2020
Two red ochre handprints, in a low shelter below Topham Hill
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
The Topham Trig Station engraving site is one of great ceremonial significance. It has a Daramulan figure, as well as a man and woman.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Boomerang, Child, Daramulan, Deity, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1941
- View site sketch
Two rows of mundoes near West Head Road which may have represented the tracks of mythological men; much of the site is now covered over.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Siltation
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 17
- Motifs: Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
A small panel of Aboriginal rock art above Towlers Bay, with three motifs in red ochre.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Eel, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2025
Scattered figures including two fish and a small man at the start of the Towlers Bay Track at West Head
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Motifs: Fish, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal art site in a rock shelter in St Ives, which has orange lines and a single hand stencil.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1965
Aboriginal engraving of an indeterminate object, near the Mitchell Fire Trail
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1995
Very distinct Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo above the Tunnel Firetrail.
- Quality: 4/5
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
A small engraving of what may be a wombat, and axe grinding grooves, on a rock platform above the Tunnel Firetrail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Wombat
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
At least 12 Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre, in a low overhang in Berowra.
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
Shelter in Twin Creeks Reserve with cave paintings in red ochre and multiple hand stencils
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1989
Four axe grinding grooves and an engraved water channel, in a small pool just above the Two Creeks Track.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Water Hole
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
- Year first recorded: 1990
Twyfelfontein is a significant, UNESCO listed World Heritage rock art site in Namibia. The site has over 2,000 motifs from 6,000 years ago, left by the Wilton stone age culture group and later by Khoikhoi (San people or Bushmen).
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 2000
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Foot, Giraffe, Hand, Horse, Impala, Lion, Man, Oryx, Ostrich, Rhinoceros, Seal
- Year first recorded: 1975
Undercliffe (or the Earlwood Aboriginal Art Site) is a significant rock art site which has over twenty hand stencils and a midden in a small rock shelter.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 26
- Motifs: Arm, Foot, Hand
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider, Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1970
A shelter with Aboriginal rock art above the upper reaches of Mullet Creek, which has a number of motifs. As well as hand stencils, there are figures drawn in charcoal and red ochre.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Emu, Hand, Indeterminate figure, Shield
- Year first recorded: 2020
A vertical Aboriginal rock engraving on Smiths Creek, with a frieze containing eleven figures, and an adjacent site with five mundoes
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Child, Fish, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engraving of a wallaby on a small rock, above Smith Creek
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch