This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
An Aboriginal rock art site above the Bowen Hill Trail, which has a wallaby/kangaroo, emu and a pair of emu tracks.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Emu, Emu Track, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2023
An Aboriginal engraving of a woman with upstretched arms, on a small and isolated rock platform.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Woman
- Year first recorded: 2019
Regarded as Mosman's best-surviving pigment art image, this Aboriginal site is in a shallow coastal overhang.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Fish
A long rock shelter near Bradleys Head with several hand stencils, and what appears to be a shield.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Hand, Shield
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
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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
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
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Above a small waterfall near Brooklyn Dam are Aboriginal engravings of a fish and wallaby (or kangaroo), and some water channels in the creek bed.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Fish, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 1979
A long rock platform near the Brooklyn Dam is an Aboriginal engraving site, with over 20 figures. Many were recorded by McCarthy in 1958.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 27
- Motifs: Canoe, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Man, Oval, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- Year first recorded: 1958
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A deep shelter near Bucketty with Aboriginal rock art in red ochre and charcoal.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Graffiti damage
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Man
- Year first recorded: 1970
Originally recorded as part of four sites in the area, the Bulbous Headed Man near Bundeena is one of only four around Sydney.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Bulbous Headed Man, Man
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1962
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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
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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
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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)
Partly covered by silt, an Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo is on a small outcrop with a view of Mount Wondabyne.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
- View site sketch
A single mundoe (footprint) on a rock ledge in Kariong; it may form part of a series of mundoes
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Foot
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976
A large, unfinished engraving of a whale on Bulls Hill, with another 10 very weathered figures.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Circle, Eel, Fish, Man, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1966
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Two whales engraved at the top of 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: 2
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Year first recorded: 1962
- View site sketch
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