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.
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
A "bulbous head" (one of only four recorded around Sydney) and a second weathered figure near the end of Kimmerikong Ridge in Muogamarra National Park.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 22 Fig 4
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 141
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An Aboriginal engraving site within the Muogamarra Nature Reserve, which was thought to depict a fishing expedition. It has over 20 figures.
- Number of motifs: 21
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 23 Fig 1
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 144 Series 1
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A unique Aboriginal engraving site in the Muogamarra Nature Reserve, which depicts a man and woman copulating, along with four additional men.
- Number of motifs: 9
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Bob Pankhurst
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 24 Fig 4
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 148
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An Aboriginal engraving site in the Muogamarra Nature Reserve which has over 20 figures depicting mammals and fish commonly found in the area.
- Number of motifs: 21
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 24 Fig 5
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 147
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A complex Aboriginal engraving site with 42 figures first documented by W.D. Campbell in six groups. The figures include a speared man and many animals and hunting tools.
- Number of motifs: 42
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 23 Figs 5-10
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 145
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The Whale Feast site is a "remarkable" Aboriginal engraving site in Muogamarra Nature Reserve. It has over 60 figures, including a Baiame ancestral being and a line of 31 human figures below a large whale.
- Number of motifs: 69
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: COWAN Plate 24 Fig 1
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 149
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Described as an "animal scene", the 15 engravings on a rock platform along the Myall Trail in Mt Ku-ring-gai includes a number of wallabies and kangaroos
- Number of motifs: 16
- Year first recorded: 1960
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: SOUTH COLAH Mankind Group 76
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