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 Aboriginal rock engraving site partly destroyed by the construction of the F3 freeway. It has five figures, including two intaglio boomerangs.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1981
An unusal Aboriginal engraving of a cicada in Ingleside, first documented by W.D. Campbell.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Unknown recording date
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: NARRABEEN Plate 8 Fig 11
- McCarthy reference: NARRABEEN Group 81
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A large Aboriginal engraving site in Ingleside with which has over 24 motifs, the largest being an emu. McCarthy described the site as an emu hunt.
- Number of motifs: 24
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: NARRABEEN Plate 9 Fig 2
- McCarthy reference: NARRABEEN Group 83
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A small Aboriginal engraving site in Ingleside, which has two pairs of men in a scene described by McCarthy as representing fishermen returning to camp.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: NARRABEEN Plate 8 Fig 12
- McCarthy reference: NARRABEEN Group 82
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A small Aboriginal engraving site above a tributary of Wheelers Creek, with a single figure revembling a speared eel.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Unknown recording date
A complex Aboriginal engraving site in Red Hill Reserve with over 40 figures, many of them overlapping and a number of them fairly unusual.
- Number of motifs: 42
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: MANLY Plate 16 Fig 3
- McCarthy reference: MANLY Group 37
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- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: MANLY Plate 16 Fig 4
- McCarthy reference: MANLY Group 38
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A signposted petroglyph site Picture Canyon Natural and Cultural Preserve near Flagstaff, which has over hundred motifs scattered on multiple boulders.
- Number of motifs: 150
- Unknown recording date
An Aboriginal engraving of a fish on a ridge above Wheeler Creek.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1899
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Two men, a large circle and an eel next to five fish on three adjacent Aboriginal rock art sites on a ridge above Wheeler Creek.
- Number of motifs: 9
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: MANLY Plate 16 Figs 5 & 6
- McCarthy reference: MANLY Group 41
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A small Aboriginal shelter with art in the Kings Tableland; some of the charcoal motifs have been damaged by fire and exfoliation.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Unknown recording date
A series of four shelters along the same cliff-line with over 300 Aboriginal rock art motifs. The figures include bullroarers, hand stencils and the tail feathers of a bird.
- Number of motifs: 300
- Unknown recording date
An Aboriginal engraving site near Mount Penang with an eel, shield and indeterminate figure.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1965
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
A small Aboriginal engraving site near Mount Penang with two eels and three smaller figures (man holding club and boomerang).
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1969
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Sim reference: Mankind 7(1) 1969 Sheet 3 Fig 3E
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 171
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An elongated figure resembling a kangaroo tail and two mundoes on a small sandstone platform near Reeves Street.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1979
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
A very long and deep shelter which has multiple panels of Aboriginal rock art, with both charcoal and red ochre motfs.
- Number of motifs: 40
- Year first recorded: 1975
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
An enormous sandstone overhang, with a small panel of Aboriginal charcoal art on a low panel.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 2020
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
An Aboriginal rock art site in the lower Blue Mountains with a unique deity or spirit figure drawn in white ochre.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 2024
A small and shallow shelter in the lower Blue Mountains whch contains about 15 red ochre hand stencils. Nearby is a small pool with grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 15
- Year first recorded: 1958
A series of waterholes with grinding grooves on a large sandstone creek bed near Red Hand Cave.
- Year first recorded: 2024
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