W.D. Campbell recorded and sketched about 250 Aboriginal rock art sites across Sydney across nine parishes (predominantly engraving sites). A number of the coastal and what are now inner-city sites have been lost to development and weathering, but many of the engravings are still in good condition.
An rock platform above Tommos Loop, which has Aboriginal rock engravings of a man,canoe and emu.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, Bob Pankhurst
- Campbell reference: PATONGA Plate 27 Fig 4
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An Aboriginal engraving of an enormous (but incomplete) whale and three kangaroos above Tommos Loop in Brisbane Water NP.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Campbell reference: PATONGA Plate 28 Fig 5
- Sim reference: Sim Collection 3/24
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Group 181
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An interesting Aboriginal engraving site on Topham Hill depicting a school of 30 fish; below this site is a weathered carving of a man.
- Number of motifs: 67
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 17 Figs 6-8
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 103
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Multiple Aboriginal engravings located on five sites across the western side of Topham Hill, on a series of rock ledges.
- Number of motifs: 30
- Year first recorded: 1944
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 17 Fig 6
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Mankind Group 17
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Two rows of mundoes near West Head Road which may have represented the tracks of mythological men; much of the site is now covered over.
- Number of motifs: 17
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 10
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 106
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Scattered figures including two fish and a small man at the start of the Towlers Bay Track at West Head
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 7
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 107
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A small engraving of what may be a wombat, and axe grinding grooves, on a rock platform above the Tunnel Firetrail.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: PATONGA Plate 29 Fig 5
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Group 182
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A vertical Aboriginal rock engraving on Smiths Creek, with a frieze containing eleven figures, and an adjacent site with five mundoes
- Number of motifs: 20
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 14 Fig 3 and Plate 16 Fig 13
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 127
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Aboriginal engraving of a wallaby on a small rock, above Smith Creek
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 14 Fig 5
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 126
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A "fishing scene" near the Wallaroo Track, which includes a woman, fish and boomerangs as well as line of mundoes.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 8
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 109
- View site sketch
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