This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Very weathered and hard to see, this Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo was first recorded by Ian Sim and Fred McCarthy.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Lines
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1958
- View site sketch
Aboriginal rock art wite with a single charcoal figure near the end of the Western Ridge.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2024
An impressive frieze of Aboriginal charcoal drawings in the Blue Labyrinth area of the Blue Mountains; the identifiable motifs include a wallaby or kangaroo, and two men fighting.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 35
- Motifs: Emu, Kangaroo, Man
- Year first recorded: 1958
Faint Aboriginal charcoal art in a shallow overhang along the Western Ridge.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2024
Two isolated but very distinct grinding grooves along the Western Ridge
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 2024
Five red ochre human figures on the the ceiling of an elevated shelter (as well as another two motifs) along the Western Ridge in the Blue Labyrinth.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Hand, Man
- Year first recorded: 1958
A large whale, two fish and three kangaroos across three adjacent rock platforms near Woy Woy Road.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch – whale / fish and kangaroo / two wallabies
Aboriginal engraving of a fish and mundoe (both very faint) on a rock platform near the Red Hill Main Track (Red Hill Reserve)
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish, Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1982
A deeply-carved Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo near the Red Hill Main Trail (Red Hill Reserve)
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Vandalised
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1982
- View site sketch
Two shields and some indeterminate figures at an Aboriginal engraving site on a tesselated pavement within Red Hill Reserve.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Club, Eel, Emu, Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engraving site on a rock platform above Wheeler Creek which depicts two shields.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Shield
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch
The Wheeler Heights Aboriginal Site is large site documented by W.D. Campbell in 1899, who described it as “one of the finest groups the Writer has come across”. The scenes include two men fighting and a successful kangaroo hunt.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 142
- Motifs: Club, Boomerang, Dolphin, Echidna, Fish, Hand, Kangaroo, Kangaroo - Speared, Kangaroo Track, Man, Mundoe (foot), Ornament, Oval, Seal, Shark, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
Two adjacent and probably related Aboriginal rock art sites in Narara; a large rock platform has 80+ grinding groobves and two engravings, and nearby is a shelter with white charcoal and red ochre figures.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Echidna, Emu, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
An isolated sandstone boulder with (at least) three Aboriginal hand stencils and charcoal art.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Eugene Stockton
- Year first recorded: 1958
Three slabs of rock that were part of a larger Aboriginal engraving site, which were re-located to the St Ives Wildflower Garden during the construction of the F3 freeway.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Re-located, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Man
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 2013
- View site sketch
Solitary Aboriginal engraving of a fish, below the Willunga Trig station.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1899
The Wilton Shelter is a significant and spectacular Aboriginal rock art site in Sydney's south-west. The long shelter has over 60 motifs, all drawn in charcoal including two life-size kangaroos and a large anthropomorphic figures.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 60
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Club, Dingo, Emu, Hand, Kangaroo, Man, Woman, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1964
- View site sketch – Southern section / Northern section
A rock shelter with Aboriginal hand stencils above Clements Creek. The sandstone wall has extensive graffiti, and many of the stencils are hard to see.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1981
Aboriginal engraving of a wallaby or kangaroo on a small, sloping rock near Wisemans Ferry Road.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
The Wolfe Ranch Petroglyph panel is a signposted Ute Indian rock art site, along the Delicate Arch Trail in Arches National Park.
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 19
- Motifs: Dog/Wolf, Horse, Sheep