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 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 boomerangs as well as line of mundoes.
- Number of motifs: 10
- 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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An Aboriginal engraving site on a spur beneath the Waratah Track, which may illustrate a fishing scene.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Year first recorded: 1946
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Mankind Group 36
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Two potholes with a deep channel around them and two axe grinding grooves along a steep ledge. A short distance away are engravings of a shield and fish (not found).
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 115/116 & Mankind Group 48 S4
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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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A cerermonial or ritual Aboriginal engraving site below the Waratah Track, with a decorated man and woman, whale and many fish.
- Number of motifs: 9
- Year first recorded: 1946
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Mankind Group 37
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