This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
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A large shelter in Popran National Park, the Upside Down Man Cave has over 274 motifs, representing three engraving types.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 280
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Echidna, Eel, Fish, Hand, Kangaroo, Man, Snake
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1992
Multiple panels of Native American rock art high above Utah Scenic Byway 279 (Potash Road) in Utah
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 120
- Motifs: Bear, Indeterminate figure, Man, Sheep
Single axe grinding groove next to the Valley Heights Firetrail in the lower Blue Mountains.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2026
A weathered Aboriginal engraving on rock platform just off the Van Dahls Firetrail in Patonga.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2018
A small rock platform near Victoria Road Firetrail in Dhawaral National Park with three axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
Recorded during a field survey conducted prior to the construction of the Sydney to Newcastle freeway through Cowan, this Aboriginal engraving site was determined as being of significant anthropological significance.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 35
- Motifs: Club, Echidna, Man, Mundoe (foot), Woman
- Year first recorded: 1960
- View site sketch