This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
A complex and well-documented site on a rocky spur in Woy Woy, which is known for its "seven dancing rabbits"
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 55
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Lines, Man, Oval, Rabbit, Shield, Stingray
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Stanbury and Clegg
- Year first recorded: 1899
- View site sketch – Site Overview / Site 1 / Site 2 / Site 3 (Rabbits)
A single kangaroo on a rock ledge overlooking Brisbane Water, below Woy Woy Road. Located in thick scrub and hard to reach.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1946
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Large wallaby and kangaroo and a smaller macropod near Kariong Scout Camp Road.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1981
A large man with upraised arms, part of a series of Aboriginal engraving sites documented by Ian Sim and Fred McCarthy.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1981
Two significant sites near Woy Woy Road, which represent "a ritual and mythological story".
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 30
- Motifs: Eel, Fish, Man, Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1946
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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
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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
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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