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.
A small Aboriginal rock engraving site along Linden Ridge, which has six figures including fish, an echidna and a motif with two concentric circles.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
Two small, adjoining rock platforms along the Linden Ridge Firetrail have shallow axe grinding grooves.
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection, Site 10 (Blue Mountains)
An expansive rock platform along the Linden Ridge in the Blue Mountains, which has axe grinding grooves and stone arrangements.
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection, Site 10 (Blue Mountains)
A very small rock platform above the Linden Ridge Firetrail in the Blue Mountains, which has three distinct axe grinding grooves.
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection, Site 10 (Blue Mountains)
The Little Beach Aboriginal engraving site has two vertical engravings, of a whale and a fish.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1977
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 1/6
An Aboriginal engraving site near the Flannel Flower Walking Track in Bouddi NP, which has multiple ovals/circles, two shields and a club or boomerang.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 1/15
An Aboriginal engraving site in Bouddi NP, with a single carving of a kangaroo.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 1/17
An Aboriginal engraving site on the ridge above Lobster Beach in Bouddi NP, which has a man, a fish and what may be a mantra ray.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2019
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 1/15
An interesting Aboriginal engraving site near Lyre Trig in Kariong; it depicts what appears to be a copulating couple.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1969
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Mankind 7(1) 1969 Sheet 1 Fig G (Series 1, p.54)
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Group 166 Series 5
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving of a man and a "composite emu spirit figure"; it's one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1969
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Mankind 7(1) 1969 Sheet 1 Fig M (Series 10, p.54)
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Group 166 Series 10
- View site sketch
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