This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
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
Over 40 Aboriginal axe grinding grooves in the bedrock of Camp Fire Creek, along the Red Hand Cave Circuit in the lower Blue Mountains.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 1980
An Aboriginal engraving site above Campbell Creek, depicting two men, fish and a shield, in what may be a fishing scene.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Fish, Man, Shield
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
- Year first recorded: 1899
The Canaan Gap Petroglyphs is an intriguing rock art site, with very deeply etched "Cookie Cutter" figures depicting many animal and human figures.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good, Vandalised
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 100
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Bear, Indeterminate figure, Sheep
Canoelands is one of the most significant Aboriginal sites around Sydney, and would have been of great importance in the ritual and mythology of the local tribe. The site includes cave art in different pigments dating over six periods, rock 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: 130
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Axe, Bird, Club, Boomerang, Crescent, Daramulan, Deity, Echidna, Eel, Emu, Hand, Kangaroo, Koala, Man, Oval, Woman
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg, Jo McDonald
- Year first recorded: 1961
- View site sketch – shelter art / rock engravings
The Canoelands 2 Aboriginal site has about 50 motifs in charcoal, yellow and red ochre, including a large kangaroo and many hand stencils. Nearby are three axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 50
- Motifs: Baiame, Hand, Kangaroo, Lines, Possum
- Year first recorded: 1981
- View site sketch
Rock outcrop in Canoelands (Marramarra NP) with a kangaroo, emu and fish engravings.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Emu, Fish, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 2001
Weathered charcoal and red ochre Aboriginal drawings in a small shelter in Canoelands (Marramarra NP)
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Basket, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
A small wallaby or kangaroo and several axe ginding grooves on a Canoelands ridge.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2020
Two adjacent Aboriginal engraving sites on a remote Canoelands ridge; they include multiple boomerangs, shields and kangaroos.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 14
- Motifs: Boomerang, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Shield
- Year first recorded: 1980
Two Aboriginal engraving axe grinding grooves on a large rock platform in Canoelands.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2016
Two indeterminate Aboriginal charcoal motfs in a low Canoelands shelter.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1980
A small and somewhat unusual Aboriginal cave painting site, in a shelter at the base of a tall cliff near the significant Canoelands 1 site.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1980
A mundoe is on a small rock in front of a low shelter, which contains some very weathered Aboriginal cave art.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Foot, Indeterminate figure, Man, Octopus
- Year first recorded: 1956
Four mundoes engraved on a long sandstone ledge on a Canoelands ridge. (Nearby are several grinding grooves.)
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Foot
- Year first recorded: 2016
A small shelter in Canoelands, which contains several charcoal and one white painting. Nearby is a grooved water channel.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2016
Vertical Axe Grinding Grooves (AGGs) on a large sandstone boulder.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Year first recorded: 2012
The spectacular Art Gallery Aboriginal art site in Carnarvon Gorge contains almost 2,000 motifs. They include ochre stencils, freehand paintings and rock engravings.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 1989
- Motifs: Axe, Bird Track, Club, Boomerang, Emu Track, Goanna, Grid, Hand, Lines, Oval, Rainbow Serpent, Snake, Vulva
- Year first recorded: 1940
- View site sketch