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 Aboriginal site of "ritual importance" near the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track. It includes a large composite figure of a seal.
- Number of motifs: 7
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 24 Fig 7
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 157
- View site sketch
An elevated rock platform along the Kimmerikong Ridge (Muogamarra National Park) which has 13 figures, incuding a large Daramulan.
- Number of motifs: 13
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 22 Fig 1
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 140
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site on a large rock platform along the Kimmerikong Ridge, with three fish, an oval and an eel. Nearby are multiple heaps of stones.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 22 Fig 2
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 143
- View site sketch – Eel (Mcarthy) / Fish (Campbell)
Aboriginal red ochre and charcoal figures in a tall and long shelter near Woy Woy. An impressive site unfortunately damaged by graffiti.
- Number of motifs: 20
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, Bob Pankhurst
- Campbell reference: PATONGA Plate 29 Fig 2
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Shelter below Koolewong Ridge, which has Aboriginal charcoal art (indeterminate motifs) and a midden.
- Number of motifs: 18
- Year first recorded: 2019
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Campbell reference: PATONGA Plate 28 Fig 6
- View site sketch
A large weathered whale (over six metres in length) along the Koolewong Ridge Firetrail. It was first documented by W.D. Campbell.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: PATONGA Plate 27 Fig 9
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Group 178
- View site sketch
A very weathered engraving of a whale and its calf, on the headland at La Perouse.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews
- Campbell reference: BOTANY Plate 3 Fig 2
- R.H. Mathews reference: The Rock Paintings and Carvings of the Australian Aborigines in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. 25, p.147-150.
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On one of the rock platforms along the Little Moab Track is a school of (four) whales and a deity figure… the engravings are very faint and weathered and hard to make out.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: NARRABEEN Plate 13 Fig 4
- McCarthy reference: NARRABEEN Group 91
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A complex Aboriginal engraving site across multiple adjacent platforms, which includes a very long line of footprints (mundoes) and a depiction of Baiame.
- Number of motifs: 50
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 21 Fig 1-2
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 135 & 136
- View site sketch
The Longueville Park Aboriginal engraving site has an unusually-drawn emu and an oval figure; it may represent an emu hunt.,
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: WILLOUGHBY Plate 18 Fig 2
- McCarthy reference: WILLOUGHBY Group 31
- View site sketch
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