Sim documented hundreds of Aboriginal rock art sites across Sydney, many of them published in a series of articles in Mankind in the 1960s. A consolidated set of his recordings referred to as the “Sim Collection” are now held by AHIMS.
Two adjacent and probably related Aboriginal rock art sites in Narara; a large rock platform has 80+ grinding groobves and two engravings, and nearby is a shelter with white charcoal and red ochre figures.
- Number of motifs: 15
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection 2/48
Three slabs of rock that were part of a larger Aboriginal engraving site, which were re-located to the St Ives Wildflower Garden during the construction of the F3 freeway.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2013
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- View site sketch
The Wilton Shelter is a significant and spectacular Aboriginal rock art site in Sydney's south-west. The long shelter has over 60 motifs, all drawn in charcoal including two life-size kangaroos and a large anthropomorphic figures.
- Number of motifs: 60
- Year first recorded: 1964
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- View site sketch – Southern section / Northern section
Aboriginal engraving of a wallaby or kangaroo on a small, sloping rock near Wisemans Ferry Road.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
A waterhole with two axe grinding grooves, near the Womerah Range Trail.
- Year first recorded: 1966
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Occasional Papers 7(1) 1966, p,6
- McCarthy reference: MELLONG Group 5B
A very weathered kangaroo in thick scrub near Woy Woy Creek.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection 7/25
A single kangaroo on a rock ledge overlooking Brisbane Water, below Woy Woy Road. Located in thick scrub and hard to reach.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1946
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Mankind 6(8) 1966 Sheet 1, Fig N
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 159
- View site sketch
Large wallaby and kangaroo and a smaller macropod near Kariong Scout Camp Road.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1981
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 3/6 S1
- McCarthy reference: Unpublished Notebook 62C Series 2
A large man with upraised arms, part of a series of Aboriginal engraving sites documented by Ian Sim and Fred McCarthy.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1981
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 3/6 S2
- McCarthy reference: Unpublished Notebook 62C Series 1
A series of Aboriginal rock engravings and axe grinding grooves scattered across adjoining rock platforms above Woy Woy Road
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 1967
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 3/22
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