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.
Several Aboriginal axe grinding grooves and what may be a spear grinding groove in a tributary of Dark Creek in the Devils Wilderness.
- Year first recorded: 2026
A shelter in the Devils Wilderness below Wilderness Ridge, which has Aboriginal rock art and axe grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 20
- Year first recorded: 2012
- Originally recorded by: William Moon
A long shelter above Burralow Creek in the Devils Wilderness, which has ten weathered Aboriginal rock art motifs.
- Number of motifs: 9
- Year first recorded: 2011
- Originally recorded by: William Moon
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Regarded as Mosman's best-surviving pigment art image, this Aboriginal site is in a shallow coastal overhang.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Unknown recording date
A long rock shelter near Bradleys Head with several hand stencils, and what appears to be a shield.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Unknown recording date
A sacred and significant Aboriginal rock art shelter in the Burragorang Valley with very weathered motifs.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Year first recorded: 1910
A small Aboriginal rock art shelter with numerous figures in charcoal and red ochre, and a set of axe grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 20
- Year first recorded: 2017
An Aboriginal rock art site along the Lane Cove River with a pair of emu feet in red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1990
- Originally recorded by: Michael Guider
A small set of Aboriginal axe grinding grooves along a Narrow Neck cliff line.
- Year first recorded: 1999
A complex Flat Rocks Ridge (Gunderman) Aboriginal engraving site, Group 3 includes an enormous female ancestral figure and a large emu and swordfish among the 29 motifs. There are also 40 grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 29
- Year first recorded: 1961
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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A shallow Aboriginal Shelter with Art below Flat Rocks Ridge which has over twenty drawings and stencils in red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 25
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
A Flat Rocks Ridge (Gunderman) Aboriginal engraving site which features a gigantic kangaroo, as well a woman, two smaller kangaroos and two dingoes.
- Number of motifs: 9
- Year first recorded: 1961
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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A low, long shelter below Flat Rocks Ridge with Aboriginal rock art (mostly charcoal figures) and axe grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 36
- Year first recorded: 1988
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
An Aboriginal engraving site along Flat Rocks Ridge in Gunderman, which has multiple wallabies, boomerangs and a pelican.
- Number of motifs: 18
- Year first recorded: 1961
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal rock art shelter near the South Terraborra Trail which has numerous motifs in charcoal, including a wallaby and kangaroo.
- Number of motifs: 20
- Year first recorded: 2019
- Originally recorded by: William Moon
An Aboriginal rock art site in Mellong, with what is thought to be a contact motif depicting a horse.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 2002
- Originally recorded by: William Moon
A long overhang in the Parr SCA with four very weathered hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Year first recorded: 2019
- Originally recorded by: William Moon
A small overhang in a remote Parr SCA valley which has a number of charcoal motifs (including two echidnas) and multiple hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 18
- Year first recorded: 2019
- Originally recorded by: William Moon
A small but deep shelter in a tributary of Angorawa Creek., which has a series of leaping wallabies or kangaroos.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 2019
Two very weathered Aboriginal engravings on a large rock platform next to the Eastern Commission Trail in Dharug NP.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1988
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
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