This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal engraving site with one whale and two fish on a large rock platform near Bundeena (originally recorded as part of four sites in the area by Ian Sim).
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1962
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal rock art shelter near Burns Bay Road which has very weathered hand stencils and charcoal drawings.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1979
A weathered panel of Aboriginal rock art in a long but shallow shelter above Cabbage Tree Creek, with at least 15 charcoal motifs.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2023
An Aboriginal engraving of a fish hooked on a line, on a vertical rock along Calabash Creek.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1976
- View site sketch
A small and shallow shelter near Calabash Creek, which contains a single hand stencil.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2017
A small but deep shelter near Calabash Creek, which has a small panel of Aboriginal rock art with stencils and drawings.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Emu, Hand, Kangaroo, Wombat
- Year first recorded: 2017
Very weathered Aboriginal rock engravings of a kangaroo and an indeterminate object on a rock platform next to the Calabash Trail.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2012
Weathered Aboriginal engravings on a rock platform next to the Calabash Trail, including an eel-like figure.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Eel, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 2021
Aboriginal engraving site above the Caleyi Trail, which has a single kangaroo and a very weathered fish,
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1984
Carvings of two kangaroos, one of which was described by W.D. Campbell as having a spear in its back.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal art shelter above Peats Ridge Road, which has a charcoal drawing of a kangaroo; above the shelter is a mundoe.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Foot, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim, R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
A rock engraving site in Calga with a Daramulan figure on rocky platform surrounded by swamp.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Daramulan, Deity
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1979
- View site sketch
Weathered Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo (and two grinding grooves) above Peats Ridge Road at Calga.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
A small Aboriginal engraving site in Calga, which has a man next to what appears to be a dog, and two emus.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Siltation, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Emu, Man
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim, Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1979
A small and isolated Aboriginal engraving seat near Peats Ridge Road, which depicts either a man in a canoe or a Daramulan figure,
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good, Siltation
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Canoe, Daramulan, Kangaroo, Man
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1976
Aboriginal rock site above Peats Ridge Road, which has four kangaroos and a figure described by Ian Sim as a Rainbow Serpent,
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo, Rainbow Serpent
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1976
- View site sketch (Bob Pankhurst)
An oval-shaped Aboriginal rock engraving near the Callicoma Trail in Cherrybrook.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Oval
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
A single Aboriginal hand stencil in red ochre near the Callicoma Trail in Cherrybrook.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2024
Seven faded Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre, in a shallow rock shelter above the Callicoma Trail in Cherrybrook.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Hand
- Originally recorded by: R Taplin
- Year first recorded: 1979
Two small Aboriginal axe grinding grooves sites along Camels Hump in the Blue Mountains.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2025