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.
A small rock platform along Yileen Spur (near Bells Line of Road) which has over fifty Aboriginal axe grinding grooves.
- Year first recorded: 2020
A Blue Mountains Aboriginal rock art site at the base of a tall cliff near the Bells Line of Road, which includes a depiction of an ibis in charcoal.
- Number of motifs: 29
- Year first recorded: 2020
- Originally recorded by: William Moon
Two adjacent shelters with Aboriginal rock art above Sams Creek in Mt Ku-ring-gai; the figures include a large kangaroo, headless emu and kangaroo tracks.
- Number of motifs: 16
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal rock art site above Sams Creek in Mount Ku-ring-gai, with a very detailed drawing of an echidna.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2021
A shallow overhang above Sams Creek with Aboriginal rock art depicting what appear to be a shield and animals.
- Number of motifs: 7
- Year first recorded: 2021
A small shelter with Aboriginal rock art below Lions Head; the red ochre motifs may include an emu and sailing ship.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 2024
A spectacular Aboriginal rock art site in the Bala Range, this shelter has over 265 motifs including two eagles, anthropomorphs, lines of "dancing men" figures and 50+ hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 265
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
A number of weathered engravings on a rock platform near the Boree Track, which includes a Daramulan figure.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1994
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
A pothole on a ridge above the Boree Track with carved water channels, which was also used by European settlers who carved their initals and a horse into the rock.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1965
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: LOCKYER Group 5A
A long, tunnel-like shelter, Carrolls Cave has over 80 Aboriginal hand stencils, as well as stencils of stone axes and spears. Above the shelter are a mundoe and kangaroo engraving.
- Number of motifs: 102
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Bob Pankhurst
One of the significant and complex Aboriginal engraving sites along the Boree Track, Frying Pan Rock has over 130 figures. The site probably depicts one or more hunting scenes, and includes 12 kangaroos (two of them speared) as well as many other animals.
- Number of motifs: 139
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Group XV (McDonald River)
- McCarthy reference: LOCKYER McDonald River District Group 8
An Aboriginal rock art shelter near Devils Rock, which contains an impressive gallery of charcoal and red ochre figures.
- Number of motifs: 35
- Year first recorded: 1970
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
A small and shallow shelter with Aboriginal rock art below a ridge off the Bala Range Trail.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 2016
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
An Aboriginal engraving of a large eel (or rainbow serpent) and several bird tracks on a ridge off the Bala Range Trail.
- Number of motifs: 8
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
An enormous sandstone shelter in the Bala Range, which has over forty figures in charcoal and red ochre. They include two anthropomorphs which are over two metres tall, and a number of animals.
- Number of motifs: 7
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Jeff Betteridge
A shallow ridge-top shelter above New Place Creek which has charcoal motifs (birds) and hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 7
- Year first recorded: 2018
- Originally recorded by: Jeff Betteridge
A small pothole with multiple axe grinding grooves on a ridge above New Place.
- Year first recorded: 2017
A long shelter in the Bala Range with three charcoal figures, including a man and macropod.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
A rock platform near the Boree Track which has an engraving of a woman (in profile) and numerous axe grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1977
A small group of Aboriginal engravings near Devils Rock; one of the sites has three men and a boomerang.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
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