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 of a "dancing man", axe grinding grooves and a water channel on a long rock platform below the Waratak Trail.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 14
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 111
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A small Aboriginal engraving site in thick scrub, which includes a fsh and an emu in an unusual pose.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 13
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 112
A fish with a hook inside its body near the Waratah Track (part of a series of Aboriginal engravings).
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1954
- 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 Series 9
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Described as a "sacred site for whales", this large Aboriginal engraving stie near the Waratah Track includes two whales (one with a man inside it) and a deity figure.
- Number of motifs: 7
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 20 Figs 1-2
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 113
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A fish and sword club in thick scrub near the Waratah Track (part of the Arden Trig series of Aboriginal engravings).
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1954
- 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 Series 7
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An Aboriginal engraving site just below the Waratah Trail surrounded by thick scrub, which has an enormous whale
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 15
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 114
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An Aboriginal engraving site described as a "successful kangaroo hunt", which has a woman, kangaroo and boomerang.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 24 Fig 6
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 150
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Two shields and some indeterminate figures at an Aboriginal engraving site on a tesselated pavement within Red Hill Reserve.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: MANLY Plate 10 Fig 2
- McCarthy reference: MANLY Group 47
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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
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