This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal engraving site just below the Waratah Trail surrounded by thick scrub, which has an enormous whale
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Oval, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A series of six Aboriginal engraving sites within the Warrah Sanctuary (now Brisbane Water National Park) which were documented by McCarthy.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 25
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Lines, Man, Mundoe (foot), Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
An Aboriginal engraving of a man with upstretched hands on a sloping rock platform; nearby are three mundoes and some unfinished figures.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Man, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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An Aboriginal engraving site with a small man, who has a curved line running from his ankle. It's part of the Warrah Sanctuary group.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish, Lines, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1954
An Aboriginal engraving of an enormous whale (8 metres in length) which appears to be blowing bubbles. The site is part of the Warrah Sanctuary group.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Fish, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1954
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A series of Aboriginal engraving sites along the cliff between Patonga and Warrah Lookout. Over 30 figures, which include a number of men, animals and bird tracks.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 39
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1954
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An Aboriginal engraving of a single, broad fish on a small rock platform between Warrah Trig Road and Patonga Drive.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
Two Aboriginal engravings of fish (and axe grinding grooves) on a rock platform below the Warrah Trig Road
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1966
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Weathered Aboriginal engravings on a tesselated platform near Warrah Trig. Figures include a speared fish.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1995
Stone or rock circles in the Warre Warren Aboriginal Place typically indicate nearby ceremonial places or sites.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stone circle
- Year first recorded: 2021
The Warrimoo Track Shelter is a long cave with a dozen hand stencils along the back wall, and a large midden below the cave.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 12
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
Very weathered site with an unusual feathered emu, as well as multiple kangaroos and axe grinding grooves
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Dingo, Emu, Kangaroo, Oval, Snake
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1958
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Washtub Gully near Berowra Waters has a number of Aboriginal engravings in a creek bed
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 26
- Motifs: Bird, Fish, Lines, Numbat, Possum, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1944
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Ochre drawings of fish in a shelter below Washtub Gully, near Berowra Waters
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish
- Year first recorded: 1989
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Above Waterfall Bay Creek are some weathered Aboriginal engravings, including two men, a small wallaby, a large fish and a dolphin.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Dolphin, Eel, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1999
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A fairly weathered Aboriginal rock art site, which has four or five charcoal motifs on a recessed panel at the base of a very tall cliff near Mountain Lagoon.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Man
- Year first recorded: 2023
A partly weathered Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo near the Wedgewood Fire Trail.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2019
An Aboriginal engraving site described as a "successful kangaroo hunt", which has a woman, kangaroo and boomerang.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Boomerang, Kangaroo, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
Ten hand stencils in a small Aboriginal rock art site above the West Branch Camping Area in the Mount Moffat section of Carnarvon National Park.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Hand
Two axe grinding grooves on a small rock platform above West Head Road
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 2017