Fred McCarthy documented an enormous number of sites across Sydney, and further north (36 parishes in total). His Catalogue of Rock Engravings spans two volumes and over 1200 pages, and includes the recordings of Campbell and Sim, as well as his own sites.
An Aboriginal engraving site depicting four leaping kangaroos on a huge rock platform below Mount Murray Anderson.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 14 Fig 1
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 132
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A weathered Aboriginal engraving of a man holding a shield and boomerang. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1960
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 130 / Mankind 93 Series 1
- Number of motifs: 4
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 16 Fig 12
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 130 / Mankind 93 S2
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A compact Aboriginal engraving site that includes two men and four shields. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Number of motifs: 9
- Year first recorded: 1946
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 130 / Mankind 93 Series 5
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A very weathered kangaroo at the edge of one of the rock platforms along the Mount Murray Anderson ridge.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 14 Fig 7
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 134
A series of Aboriginal engraving sites to the south-west of Mount Murray Anderson, which includes two large whales, a man-emu composite figure and a stone arrangement.
- Number of motifs: 24
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 14 Fig 7
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 134
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A small Aboriginal engraving site near Mount Penang with two eels and three smaller figures (man holding club and boomerang).
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1969
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Sim reference: Mankind 7(1) 1969 Sheet 3 Fig 3E
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 171
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A small site sandwiched between the old Pacific Highway and the railway line and accessed by an unsigned track. The site features three figures and a very long line of mundoes.
- Number of motifs: 74
- Year first recorded: 1904
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: SOUTH COLAH McCarthy Sydney-Hawkesbury No 1
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An Aboriginal engraving of half a man, who has been speared in the foot. It's on a small rock platform above Mullet Creek.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Campbell reference: PATONGA Plate 29 Fig 8
- Sim reference: Sim Collection 7/17
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Group 186
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An Aboriginal engraving site on Taffys Rock, which consists of a line (50m in length) of 44 footprints around the summit.
- Number of motifs: 44
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 24 Fig 10
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 156 / Mankind Group 82
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