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.
A small but interesting Aboriginal engraving site just below Cottage Point Road, with over 20 figures including two men (or deities) and two women, one of whom has caught a fish.
- Number of motifs: 24
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 20 Fig 9
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 121
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Three very distinct Aboriginal hand stencils and a fish in red ochre, on rock overhangs along Smiths Creek
- Number of motifs: 8
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 12 Fig 14
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An Aboriginal engraving site above Smiths Creek, the large rock platform has a pair of clearly-cut emus, a large fish and a shield.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1989
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 20 Fig 6
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 137
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A significant Aboriginal engraving site at Cottage Point, with two deity (Baiame) figures. Both have a rayed headress and vertical stripes on their bodies.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 20 Fig 4
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 119
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An Aboriginal engraving of a deity (probably Baiame) on a large rock platform below the Taber trig station
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 12 Fig 15
- R.H. Mathews reference: Rock Pictures of the Australian Aborigines, Proceedings of the Queensland Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australiasia, Vol. 11, p.102 (Plate 2, Fig 5)
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 120
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An Aboriginal engraving of a man or deity on a large rock platform below the Taber trig station.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 12 Fig 12
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 118
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Aboriginal engraving of a seal, sea lion or dugong, near the edge of a large rock platform below Taber Trig
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 20 Fig 5
- R.H. Mathews reference: Rock Pictures of the Australian Aborigines, Proceedings of the Queensland Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australiasia, Vol. 11, p.103 (Plate 2, Fig 6)
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 120
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A long and deep shelter near the Taber Trig, with charcoal drawings (documented by Campbell) and red hand stencils
- Number of motifs: 9
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, Warren Bluff
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 20 Fig 7
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Shelter with a single Aboriginal charcoal drawing in Taffys Gully.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 24 Fig 11
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An Aboriginal engraving site on a low saddle along the track to Taffys Rock, which has two whales and a wallaby.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 25 Fig 3
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