This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
The Berry Island Aboriginal engraving features a large sea creature, likely from Dreamtime stories, and other smaller motifs.
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Boomerang, Circle, Crescent, Marine Creature, Shell
- Year first recorded: 1960
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An Aboriginal rock art shelter with charcoal and red ochre figures in a shallow shelter near Big Jims Point.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Boomerang, Fish
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2020
The Big Man, Small Man Aboriginal engraving site has three male figures. The largest is over six metres high, and the smallest just over a metre.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1946
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A long but very low shelter in the Big Yango Precinct, which contains 22 tally marks engraved in the sandstone.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 22
- Motifs: Tally Marks
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1986
The Big Yengo Tobacco Shelter is a large, deep overhang in Yengo National Park with Aboriginal rock art (charcoal drawing and hand stencils).
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2018
A small shelter along Big Yengo Creek, which has Aboriginal rock art including a star or starburst, and 16 stencils in white ochre.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 17
- Motifs: Hand, Oval, Starburst
- Year first recorded: 2018
An overhang above Tootie Creek with very weathered Aboriginal hand stencils; nearby is a small set of grinding grooves.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2024
The Birthing Panel or Birthing Rock petroglyph site is a large boulder covered on all sides by Native American rock art. The petroglyphs span three different periods spanning 2,000 years.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 80
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Man, Mundoe (foot), Sheep, Snake, Woman
Three Aboriginal engravings of indeterminate figures on a rock platform above Blackbutt Creek.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1990
A well-preserved and significant Aboriginal rock art site, the Blackfellows Hands Cave (Maiyingu Marragu) has over 50 stencils of hands and weapons. It's reached by a short walk.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 50
- Motifs: Axe, Boomerang, Hand
- Year first recorded: 1907
Behind a row of houses is a large rock platform with a small number of engravings including fish and a kangaroo.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
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An Aboriginal engraving site below Blake Ridge (in Marramarra NP), which depicts a group of five eels.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Eel
- Year first recorded: 2021
A small shelter above Blue Gum Creek which has a single stencil of a hand and forearm.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Arm, Hand
- Year first recorded: 2022
A small shelter above Blue Gum Creek, which has eight weathered hand stencils in red ochre.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2022
The main engraving is a large whale, about 11m in length, with an unusually large mouth. Near the whale are two boomerangs and a small figure.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Boomerang, Man, Shield, Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1892
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The Boat Cave (or Many Drawings Cave) has a large panel with male figures, a lizard and kangaroos, in both charcioal and red ochre.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Contact Motif, Goanna, Kangaroo, Man, Sailing Ship, Snake
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
- Year first recorded: 1982
Located on a vertical rock face in the Bobbin Head Marina carpark is an engraving of a fish, mammal and goanna
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Club, Boomerang, Fish, Goanna
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A large but very weathered Aboriginal site near the Bobbin Head Trig, which represents "mythological spirit beings" and a food-getting theme.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 32
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Club, Echidna, Eel, Emu, Fish, Jellyfish, Kangaroo, Lines, Possum, Shield, Snake, Spear, Stingray, Woman, Wombat
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
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A short side-track off the Bobbin Head Trail to a signposted Aboriginal engraving site, which has a broad range of motifs.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 37
- Motifs: Bird, Bird of Prey, Emu, Emu Track, Fish, Goanna, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Possum, Quoll, Woman
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1894
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The Boheh Stone, a Neolithic monument in Ireland, features 250 petroglyphs and aligns with celestial events, particularly solstices, suggesting its significance to early agricultural societies.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 250
- Motifs: Cupmarks, Cup-and-Ring, Keyhole
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