This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal engraving of an indeterminate figure near the top of an unnamed hill to the east of Woy Woy Road
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1966
A series of Aboriginal rock engravings and axe grinding grooves scattered across adjoining rock platforms above Woy Woy Road
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Mundoe (foot)
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1967
A stone arrangement and a series of five (very weathered) Aboriginal engraving sites near the Woy Woy Snake.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure, Whale
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
A shelter near Woy Woy Tip, with over 15 hand stencils defaced by a modern charcoal drawing of a kangaroo and names spray painted over the art.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 1973
Axe grinding grooves and carved water channels above the Woy Woy Waterfall (Trough Waterfall)
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Water Hole
- Year first recorded: 1985
The Wullumba Rock Art site is one of two publicly accessible Aboriginal art sites in the Chillagoe area. The art is on the base of a high limestone outcrop.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Shield
The Yankee Hat Rock Art Site in Namadgi National Park consists of 18 motifs, in white and red ochre, representing a range of animals as well human-like forms. It's reached by a 6km return bushwalk.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 18
- Motifs: Bird, Echidna, Kangaroo, Man, Turtle, Wombat
- View site sketch
An undisturbed shelter with three Aboriginal rock art figures in thick scrub above Fraser Creek.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Kangaroo, Shield
- Year first recorded: 1982
A spectacular Aboriginal rock art site in Yengo National in the lower Hunter Valley, Yengo 1 has over 500 motifs including stencils, paintings and engravings as well as engravings and axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 507
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Axe, Bird, Boomerang, Eel, Emu, Hand, Kangaroo Track, Oval
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Jo McDonald
Yengo 2 is a spectacular Aboriginal rock art site in Yengo National in the lower Hunter Valley. The shelter has 94 figures, including 40 stencils and many depictive motifs.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 93
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Axe, Club, Goanna, Hand, Lines, Possum, Snake
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Jo McDonald
A large (13 foot) Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo between the Yeomans Track and Wallaroo Track at West Head.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews
- Year first recorded: 1895
- View site sketch
A small rock platform along Yileen Spur (near Bells Line of Road) which has over fifty Aboriginal axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2020
The Zion Petroglyph Canyon is one of the best and most easily accessible rock art sites in Zion NP. It's reached by a short (but unmarked) trail from the Zion - Mt Carmel Highway.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 150
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Kokopelli, Lines, Sheep