This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An small Aboriginal engraving site depicting a hunter and his two wives celebrating a successful kangaroo hunt.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Shield, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1941
- View site sketch
The Lyrebird Site in Larool Reserve (Terrey Hills) features an engraving of a lyrebird, as well as many other animal carvings.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 31
- Motifs: Bird Track, Boomerang, Echidna, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Lyrebird, Possum, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1941
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Tesselate Hill (or Tesselated Pavements) has an Aboriginal engraving and many grinding grooves over the large rock surface.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Woman
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
A small Aboriginal rock art site along a low cliff line above the Wollangambe River, which has multiple hand stencils and a stone axe.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Axe, Hand
- Year first recorded: 2024
The Chimneys rock art site has pictographs and petroglyphs dated up to several thousand years old. They are located at the base of one of The Chimneys in Big Bend.
- Quality: 5/5
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Lines
The Gallery consists of two faded galleries of Aboriginal art near the Oaks Trail - one with red ochre figures and the other charcoal.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: Eugene Stockton
- Year first recorded: 1958
Among the many Aboriginal engraving sites around Cottage Point are a number which depict Baiame, a deity figure and ancestral hero of the Aboriginal people.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 47
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Deity, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
A small Aboriginal rock art shelter, which contains a few areas painted in red ochre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1978
A series of Aboriginal grinding grooves sites and an engraving site along The Pinnacle on the Mount Hay Range.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Bear track
- Year first recorded: 1989
A spectacular Aboriginal rock art site, The Tombs in the Mount Moffat section of Carnarvon National Park has over 400 stencils. The site has the only full adult body stencil known to exist in the world.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 400
- Motifs: Foot, Hand, Kangaroo Track, Spear
Inside one of a series of three sandstone shelters along a low cliff-line are some Aboriginal charcoal drawings. The site also has six axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1978
A low but long shelter with Aboriginal rock art along Ellem Gully, which has over 100 motifs in charcoal and red ochre. The figures include many kangaroos and some hand stencils.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 126
- Motifs: Boomerang, Deity, Echidna, Hand, Man, Shield, Snake, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1988
Most likely representing an emu hunt, the Ticehurst Park Aboriginal engraving site in Faulconbridge has three very distinct emu carvings, as well as six mundoes (footprints) and a number of axe grinding grooves.
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Emu, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
- View site sketch
A single figure drawn in red ochre, in a remote shelter in the Tollagong Range.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Year first recorded: 2022
An isolated rock shelter west of Box Tree Clearing Trail has about 15 Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre along the rear wall.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2004
Multiple Aboriginal stencils and a drawing of an eel (showing endoskeleton) in white ochre, in the Tollagong Range.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 22
- Motifs: Axe, Eel, Hand
- Year first recorded: 2022
An rock platform above Tommos Loop, which has Aboriginal rock engravings of a man,canoe and emu.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Canoe, Emu, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch [partial]
This Aboriginal engraving site has multiple figures in the bed of a creek, including two unusual male figures and three eels
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: -3
- Motifs: Eel, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
An Aboriginal engraving of an enormous (but incomplete) whale and three kangaroos above Tommos Loop in Brisbane Water NP.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Bird, Kangaroo, Man, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1899
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An Aboriginal engraving site above Tommos Loop, which has a large marine creature and some smaller figures.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 1993