This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A small charcoal frieze with three men in a small and low shelter above the eastern arm of South West Arm Creek.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1998
An enormous shelter named from it's location near The Sphinx, this site has 91 motifs including charcoal paintings and hand stencils.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 91
- Motifs: Deity, Hand, Kangaroo, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews
- Year first recorded: 1896
An Aboriginal rock art site in the lower Blue Mountains with a unique deity or spirit figure drawn in white ochre.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Deity
- Year first recorded: 2024
A significant Aboriginal rock art site in the MacDonald River district, Spirits Cave was extensively documented by Ian Sim. The shelter contains 186 motifs, including multiple deity figures and what was thought to be a Rainbow Serpent.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 186
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Arm, Axe, Bird, Club, Boomerang, Deity, Eel, Fish, Goanna, Hand, Kangaroo, Lyrebird, Man, Owl, Rainbow Serpent, Snake, Sunburst, Turtle, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
Spirits Rock is a signposted Aboriginal engraving site at the end of the Cowan Trail, which has a number of figures, including a large and detailed engraving of the Baiame deity.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 24
- Motifs: Baiame, Boomerang, Deity, Fish, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
- View site sketch
Next to the Pacific Motorway (M1), the Spring Gully (or Cockle Creek) site has 83 engraved figures across multiple locations.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 97
- Motifs: Bird, Boomerang, Echidna, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield, Stingray, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1959
- View site sketch
A small shelter with multiple red hand stencils in North Wahroonga
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1979
A very weathered Aboriginal rock art site near Springwood Ridge, with charcoal motifs.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2024
A shelter near Springwood Ridge with at least five weathered Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre .
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1995
Water channels that appear to be of Aboriginal origin, below the STEP Track in South Turramurra.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Water Hole
- Year first recorded: 2021
Small panel of Aboriginal rock art in a shallow shelter above Stills Creek near Crosslands. There are two hand stencils and multiple charcoal drawings.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Fish, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1983
A deep sandstone shelter near Stockyard Creek which has Aboriginal rock art dating back to around AD1470, with over 60 motifs including a "starburst" drawing and many hand stencils.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 75
- Motifs: Boomerang, Hand, Spear, Sunburst
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1969
A shallow sandstone shelter in Dhawaral National Park at the base of a tall cliff with Aboriginal rock art including anthropomorphic figures and macropods.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 25
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Contact Motif, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man, Woman
- Year first recorded: 1995
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
A vertical Aboriginal rock engraving on a boulder near Strangers Creek in the Field of Mars Reserve.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- 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