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 vertical Aboriginal rock engraving on a boulder near Strangers Creek in the Field of Mars Reserve.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1970
Containing the most extensive panel of Aboriginal drawings in the Hunters Hill shire, this tall shelter has many red ochre figures.
- Number of motifs: 15
- Year first recorded: 1988
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
A rock shelter just above the Lane Cove River in Hunters Hill, which multiple hand stencils and red ochre drawings.
- Number of motifs: 12
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
Group 10 is the largest of the Flat Rocks Ridge Aboriginal engraving sites, which also has highest number of figures (145) as well as grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 149
- Year first recorded: 1961
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch – Series 1, 2 & 6 / Series 3 / Series 4 / Series 5
A shelter above Chowder Bay with Aboriginal art, consisting of (at least) three hand stencils in red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2002
An Aboriginal rock art site in Hunters Hill above the Lane Cove River, which has two complex red ochre motifs.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1983
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
A potential Aboriginal rock art site; the orange ochre motif is in a shallow overhang at the foot of a vertical cliff face.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1989
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
An Aboriginal engraving site above the Lane Cove River with two mammals, one of them likely an echidna with unusual feet.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1980
One of the larger Aboriginal engraving sites along Flat Rocks Ridge in Gunderman, Group 9 has 30 engravings (including a large Baiame and his wife).
- Number of motifs: 4
- Year first recorded: 1961
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site along Flat Rocks Ridge in Gunderman; it has over 50 axe grinding grooves and 12 figures including two large kangaroos.
- Number of motifs: 12
- Year first recorded: 1961
A small Aboriginal engraving site along Flat Rocks Ridge in Gunderman with an echidna and three mundoes.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Year first recorded: 1961
An Aboriginal shelter with art above the Eastern Commission Trail in Lower Mangrove, which has 18 hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 18
- Year first recorded: 1988
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
An Aboriginal engraving of a Daramulan figure on a small rock ledge above the Waratah Trail.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 2017
A low shelter above Manly Dam, with three Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2013
A rock engraving site at Manly Dam has (most likely) European carvings, including a boomerang, reptile, fish, human figures and a sailing ship.
- Number of motifs: 12
- Year first recorded: 2018
Aboriginal engraving of a shield on Flat Rocks Ridge in Gunderman.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1961
Flat Rocks Ridge Group 6 is one of the most significant Aboriginal engraving sites of this area. The vast rock platform includes a large Baiame and stingray, as well as hunting scenes and and animal tracks.
- Number of motifs: 80
- Year first recorded: 1895
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews, F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
Very weathered and hard to see, this Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo was first recorded by Ian Sim and Fred McCarthy.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Mankind 6(2) 1963 Sheet 3 Fig C
- McCarthy reference: GORDON Mankind Group 119
- View site sketch
A large overhang above Wollombi Road, which has a large number of Aboriginal hand stencils and two drawings; unfortunately most surfaces have been vandalized with graffiti.
- Number of motifs: 32
- Year first recorded: 1967
Two adjacent Aboriginal rock art shelters near Yengo NP; the smaller shelter has over 40 motifs including three sunbursts and three sets of tally marks.
- Number of motifs: 47
- Year first recorded: 1975
INDIGENOUS SITES BY PARK
