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 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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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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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 boomerang.
- Number of motifs: 3
- 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
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Aboriginal engraving site which represents a man with fish which are his totem (or which he hopes to catch) near the Waratah Track. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Number of motifs: 8
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 11
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 115/116 & Mankind Group 48 S3
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Aboriginal engraving of a man and woman near Waratah Track. (Part of Arden Trig series.)
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 9
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 115/116 & Mankind Group 48 S6
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