This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
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A shelter with Aboriginal rock art near Walkers Ridge Road, which includes a row of human figures in white ochre.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Man
- Year first recorded: 1976
A "fishing scene" near the Wallaroo Track, which includes a woman, fish and boomerang.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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An intriguing Aboriginal engraving site near the Wallaroo Track, with five men (in two groups) as well as a number of other figures including boomerangs and mundoes.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Boomerang, Crescent, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1988
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Aboriginal engraving site which has a set of axe grinding grooves next to a waterhole, and three engraved figures. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Club, Echidna, Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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An Aboriginal rock enrgraving site below the Waratah Track, described as depicting a successful emu hunt,
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Emu, Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
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An Aboriginal engraving site on a spur beneath the Waratah Track, which may illustrate a fishing scene.
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Fish, Man, Shield, Stingray, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
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Two potholes with a deep channel around them and two axe grinding grooves along a steep ledge. A short distance away are engravings of a shield and fish (not found).
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish, Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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Aboriginal engraving site which represents a man with fish which are his totem (or which he hopes to catch) near the Waratah Track. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Fish, Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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Aboriginal engraving of a man and woman near Waratah Track. (Part of Arden Trig series.)
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
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A cerermonial or ritual Aboriginal engraving site below the Waratah Track, with a decorated man and woman, whale and many fish.
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 9
- Motifs: Fish, Man, Whale, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
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Aboriginal engraving of an "unusual pair of human figures" near the Waratah Track. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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An Aboriginal engraving of a "dancing man", axe grinding grooves and a water channel on a long rock platform below the Waratak Trail.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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Very weathered engravings of echidnas on a platform next to the Waratah Track.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Echidna
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017
Two echidnas and a leaping wallaby on a rok platform near the Waratah Track,
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Echidna, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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A small Aboriginal engraving site in thick scrub, which includes a fsh and an emu in an unusual pose.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Emu, Fish, Lines
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
An interesting-looking Aboriginal engraving (most recently described as a gecko) on a ridge off the Waratah Track
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1976
A fish with a hook inside its body near the Waratah Track (part of a series of Aboriginal engravings).
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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Described as a "sacred site for whales", this large Aboriginal engraving stie near the Waratah Track includes two whales (one with a man inside it) and a deity figure.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Emu, Man, Man Inside Whale, Shield, Turtle, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A clearly defined decorated shield and boomerang near the Waratah Track
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Boomerang, Mundoe (foot), Shield
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
- View site sketch