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 of a single, broad fish on a small rock platform between Warrah Trig Road and Patonga Drive.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection 7/2
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 54 Series 5
Two Aboriginal engravings of fish (and axe grinding grooves) on a rock platform below the Warrah Trig Road
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1966
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Sim reference: Mankind Vol 6, No 8 (1966). Sheet 1, Fig F
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 151
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Very weathered site with an unusual feathered emu, as well as multiple kangaroos and axe grinding grooves
- Number of motifs: 15
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Mankind Group 57
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Washtub Gully near Berowra Waters has a number of Aboriginal engravings in a creek bed
- Number of motifs: 26
- Year first recorded: 1944
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Mankind Group 9
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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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A deeply-carved Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo near the Red Hill Main Trail (Red Hill Reserve)
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1982
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: MANLY Plate 10 Fig 3
- McCarthy reference: MANLY Group 46
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Aboriginal engraving site on a rock platform above Wheeler Creek which depicts two shields.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: MANLY Plate 9 Fig 8
- McCarthy reference: MANLY Group 49
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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
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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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