This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An unusual depiction of Baiame at an Aboriginal engraving site above Cottage Point Road. The figure has two horns, and is holding a shield and a dilly bag.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Basket, Boomerang, Deity, Fish, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1894
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Aboriginal Shelter with Art (SWA) near Smiths Creek, which has multiple figures drawn in charcoal
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2017
An Aboriginal engraving site above Smiths Creek, the large rock platform has a pair of clearly-cut emus, a large fish and a shield.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Emu, Fish, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1989
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A small but interesting Aboriginal engraving site just below Cottage Point Road, with over 20 figures including two men (or deities) and two women, one of whom has caught a fish.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Club, Deity, Fish, Kangaroo, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Snake, Spear, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Three vertical Aboriginal rock engravings of fish, above Smiths Creek
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 1964
Sandstone shelter along Smiths Creek with three fish drawn in charcoal.
- Quality: 4/5
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1943
An Aboriginal engraving of a goanna or lizard, just below Cottage Point Road
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Goanna
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
An Aboriginal engraving site depicting a man with a long body and head-dress.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Year first recorded: 1977
An Aboriginal engraving site in Cottage Point with two large fish, and a man with upstretched arms.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Man
- Year first recorded: 1978
Three very distinct Aboriginal hand stencils and a fish in red ochre, on two adjacent rock overhangs along Smiths Creek.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Fish, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Deep shelter above Smiths Creek, with Aboriginal cave art (two men painted in red ochre)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
Shelter near Smiths Creek, which has a charcoal drawing of a snake
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Snake
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
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
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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
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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