Latest Indigenous Sites

The latest indigenous sites I’ve visited and documented, with links to historical records where available. To find a specific site or search by site features, use the Indigenous Site Search.

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Undercliffe – an Earlwood Aboriginal rock art site

Undercliffe (or the Earlwood Aboriginal Art Site) is a significant rock art site which has over twenty hand stencils and a midden in a small rock shelter.
  • Number of motifs: 26
  • Year first recorded: 1970
  • Originally recorded by: Michael Guider, Jo McDonald
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Cromer Valley Eel

An Aboriginal engraving site in Red Hill Reserve above Cromer Valley, which has a single eel.
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Unknown recording date
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Red Hill Trail Fish

An Aboriginal rock engraving site in the Red Hill Reserve depicting a single fish.
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Year first recorded: 1963
  • Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • Sim reference: Mankind Vol 6, No. 2 (1963). p.55. Plate E, Fig E.
  • McCarthy reference: MANLY Group 121
  • View site sketch
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Wheeler Creek Shields

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
  • View site sketch
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Animal track engravings along Lawson Ridge

A bird/emu track and wallaby/kangaroo track along Lawson Ridge in the Blue Mountains
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Year first recorded: 1958
  • Originally recorded by: Eugene Stockton
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Burns Bay Road Shelter with Art

An Aboriginal rock art shelter near Burns Bay Road which has very weathered hand stencils and charcoal drawings.
  • Number of motifs: 8
  • Year first recorded: 1979
  • Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
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Glades Bay Aboriginal engraving site

A signposted Aboriginal engraving site at Glades Bay, which has eleven figures (two of which can be easily seen). Nearby are some grinding grooves.
  • Number of motifs: 11
  • Year first recorded: 1940
  • Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
  • McCarthy reference: HUNTERS HILL Mankind Group 5
  • View site sketch
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Camels Hump Grinding Grooves

Two small Aboriginal axe grinding grooves sites along Camels Hump in the Blue Mountains.
  • Year first recorded: 2025
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Grose Gorge Gallery Aboriginal site

A remote Aboriginal rock art site near the Grose River, which features a long panel with over 20 stylized human-like figures drawn in charcoal.
  • Number of motifs: 30
  • Year first recorded: 2025
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Longueville Park Emu engraving

The Longueville Park Aboriginal engraving site has an unusually-drawn emu and an oval figure; it may represent an emu hunt.,
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Year first recorded: 1899
  • Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
  • Campbell reference: WILLOUGHBY Plate 18 Fig 2
  • McCarthy reference: WILLOUGHBY Group 31
  • View site sketch
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Balls Head Aboriginal Art Shelter

A very low shelter at Balls Head which contains Aboriginal rock art including hand and fish stencils. A nearby shelter excavated in the 1960s and 1970s contained artefacts and skeletal remains.
  • Number of motifs: 9
  • Year first recorded: 1964
  • Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
  • Campbell reference: WILLOUGHBY Plate 18 Fig 3
  • View site sketch
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Sewer Pipe Fish Shelter

A small Aboriginal rock art site with two fish drawn in charcoal.
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Year first recorded: 1980
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Ilkley Moor – Pepperpot Stone

The relatively small Pepperpot Stone on Ilkley Moor is covered by almost 50 Stone Age cup marks.
  • Number of motifs: 50
  • Unknown recording date
Willy Hall's Wood Stone

Ilkley Moor – Willy Hall’s Wood Stone

Willy Hall's Wood Stone on Ilkley Moor is a Stone Age rock art site with at least twenty Cup motifs, some with single or double rings.
  • Number of motifs: 20
  • Unknown recording date
Ilkley Moor - Barmishaw Stone

Ilkley Moor – Barmishaw Stone

The Barmishaw Stone rock art site on Ilkley Moor features 'ladders' - an unusual motif which consists of a pair of parallel grooves linked by perpendicular 'rungs'.
  • Number of motifs: 35
  • Year first recorded: 1879
  • View site sketch
Badger Stone

Ilkley Moor – Badger Stone

The Badger Stone on Ilkley Moor is a significant prehistoric rock art site, featuring over 110 figures including 95 Cup motifs.
  • Number of motifs: 115
  • Year first recorded: 1879
  • View site sketch

INDIGENOUS SITES BY PARK

Aboriginal Rock Art – Blue Mountains National Park
Red Hands Cave, Glenbrook (Blue Mountains)
The Blue Mountains National Park (and surrounding areas along the Great Western Highway) is thought to have over a thousand indigenous heritage sites, although much of the park has not been comprehensively surveyed. The Aboriginal rock sites in the Blue Mountains include grinding grooves, stensils, drawing and rock carvings.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Hornsby Shire
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Hornsby Shire - which is the largest LGA in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan region - contains approximately 600 recorded Aboriginal rock art sites (and over 1,200 Aboriginal heritage sites). These date back from thousands of years to post-European contact art.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Lane Cove
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Over 40 sites have been recorded within the park; many were located along the river bank and were flooded by the building of the weir in 1938.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Maroota and Marramarra NP
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Located to the north-west of Sydney, just south of the Dharug and Yengo National Parks, Maroota has a high concentration of (known) Aboriginal sites. Many more Aboriginal heritage sites are located in the Marramarra National Park. The original inhabitants of the area were the Darug people.