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.
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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The Topham Trig Station engraving site is one of great ceremonial significance. It has a Daramulan figure, as well as a man and woman.
- Number of motifs: 9
- Year first recorded: 1941
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Mankind Group 16
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Two rows of mundoes near West Head Road which may have represented the tracks of mythological men; much of the site is now covered over.
- Number of motifs: 17
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 10
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 106
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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 has a set of axe grinding grooves next to a waterhole, and three engraved figures. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1954
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 115/116 & Mankind Group 48 S2
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An Aboriginal rock enrgraving site below the Waratah Track, described as depicting a successful emu hunt,
- Number of motifs: 4
- Year first recorded: 1946
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Mankind Group 35
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