Indigenous Site Search

This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.

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Bondi Golf Course Aboriginal Site (Murriverie)

A small but sigificant Aboriginal engraving site in Bondi, these engravings are located within the Bondi Golf Course. Controversial re-grooving of the site in the 196os means that most of the engravings are still very distinct.
  • Quality: 5/5
  • Site condition: Good, Re-grooved
  • Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 66
  • Motifs: Club, Boomerang, Dolphin, Fish, Man, Shark, Turtle, Whale, Woman
  • Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
  • Year first recorded: 1888
  • View site sketch
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Boorai Creek Kangaroo Tails

A remote Aboriginal site at the edge of the Wollemi, this long shelter has over 80 motifs which include four stencils of kangaroo tails.
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Site condition: Good
  • Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
  • Number of motifs: 82
  • Motifs: Boomerang, Hand, Kangaroo Tail
  • Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Jo McDonald
  • Year first recorded: 1984
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Boree Valley Road Koala and Kangaroos

Two adjacent and potentially related Aboriginal rock engraving sites near Boree Valley Road, which depict a koala, two kangaroos and over 30 animal tracks.
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Site condition: Good, Weathered
  • Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 40
  • Motifs: Kangaroo, Kangaroo Track, Koala, Lines
  • Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • Year first recorded: 1944
  • View site sketch – Group 27 / Group 16
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Brieses Road Aboriginal Engraving Site

A complex Aboriginal engraving site over eight rock platforms, which was recorded by Ian Sim in the 1960s. Most of the figures have now been covered over by vegetation.
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
  • Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 62
  • Motifs: Bird, Boomerang, Emu, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval, Shield
  • Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Year first recorded: 1960
  • View site sketch
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Brieses Road Anthropomorphs Shelter

An Aboriginal rock art shelter near Peats Ridge which has four large, anthroporphic deity figures, as well as charcoal art and numerous hand stencils.
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
  • Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 14
  • Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bird, Deity, Hand, Man, Woman
  • Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
  • Year first recorded: 1979
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Broken Bay Recreation Camp – McRories Rock

A small Aboriginal engraving site which is in the grounds of the Broken Bay Sport and Recreation Centre. The site has eleven figures, including a man, bi-sexual figure, kangaroo and fish.
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Site condition: Good, Siltation
  • Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 11
  • Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Man
  • Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • Year first recorded: 1966
  • View site sketch
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Bulbous Headed Man at Patonga

Aboriginal rock engravings near Patonga spread over four rock platforms, which are separated by thick scrub. The most unusual of these engraved figures is a "Bulbous Headed Man".
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Site condition: Good
  • Rock engraving, Stone arrangement
  • Number of motifs: 21
  • Motifs: Arm, Boomerang, Bulbous Headed Man, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man, Turtle, Woman
  • Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Bob Pankhurst
  • Year first recorded: 1947
  • View site sketch
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Bulgandry 2 (Brisbane Water)

A significant site near Bulgandry in Kariong: "The whole group is particularly well drawn, and presents one of the best samples of this native art that the Writer has met with"
  • Quality: 4.5/5
  • Site condition: Good
  • Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 60
  • Motifs: Bird, Club, Caterpillar, Child, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Kangaroo Rat, Man, Oval, Stingray, Swamp Hen, Turtle, Whale, Woman
  • Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
  • Year first recorded: 1898
  • View site sketch
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Bulgandry Aboriginal Site

The Bulgandry Art Site Aboriginal Place is one of the most-visited engraving sites around Sydney. It's named after the prominent Bulgandry Man engraving.
  • Quality: 5/5
  • Site condition: Good
  • Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 28
  • Motifs: Bird, Canoe, Dolphin, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Octopus, Oval, Shark, Whale
  • Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • Year first recorded: 1966
  • View site sketch (main site)