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.
Aboriginal engraving site on a rock platform above Wheeler Creek which depicts two shields.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: MANLY Plate 9 Fig 8
- McCarthy reference: MANLY Group 49
- View site sketch
The Wheeler Heights Aboriginal Site is large site documented by W.D. Campbell in 1899, who described it as “one of the finest groups the Writer has come across”. The scenes include two men fighting and a successful kangaroo hunt.
- Number of motifs: 142
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
- Campbell reference: MANLY Plate 10 Fig 1
- McCarthy reference: MANLY Group 45
- View site sketch
Solitary Aboriginal engraving of a fish, below the Willunga Trig station.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 6
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 108
A large whale, two fish and three kangaroos across three adjacent rock platforms near Woy Woy Road.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Campbell reference: PATONGA Plate 27 Fig 6
- Sim reference: Mankind 7(1) 1969, Group 263 (Sheet 1, Figs A and B)
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Group 175 / Mankind Group 163
- View site sketch – whale / fish and kangaroo / two wallabies
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