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, low shelter with Aboriginal rock art (stencils and charcoal drawings) near Dawson Street.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 2020
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
An Aboriginal engraving site which has two men with head-dresses, located on a sloping rock platform along a creek in Somersby.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Sim reference: Sim Collection 2/52
- McCarthy reference: GOSFORD Unpublished Group 61C
Two adjacent and probably related Aboriginal rock art sites in Narara; a large rock platform has 80+ grinding groobves and two engravings, and nearby is a shelter with white charcoal and red ochre figures.
- Number of motifs: 15
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection 2/48
Two adjacent shelters at the base of a tall cliff-line above Narara Creek, which have Aboriginal charcoal drawings.
- Number of motifs: 7
- Year first recorded: 2020
Aboriginal engraving site on a ridge above Narara Creek, with a bird and fish.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1991
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Bob Pankhurst
Small Aboriginal engraving of a wallaby, which has no front legs.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1991
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Bob Pankhurst
Above the Gosford Railway Dams in Narara is a long wave-like shelter with a significant amount of Aboriginal art, in white and red ochre, and charcoal.
- Number of motifs: 80
- Year first recorded: 1974
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
An Aboriginal engraving site near Reeves Street, with a single kangaroo.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 2/54
Two rows of mundoes near West Head Road which may have represented the tracks of mythological men; much of the site is now covered over.
- Number of motifs: 17
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Campbell reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 10
- McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 106
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An Aboriginal engraving site on an industrial property in Somersby, which has four figures including a man and kangaroo.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Year first recorded: 1946
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 2/7
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 61
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An Aboriginal engraving of a death adder on an industrial property in Somersby.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1946
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 2/8
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Group 61A
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An interesting Aboriginal engraving site near Myoora Road, which includes a man holding a boomerang, and many animal figures.
- Number of motifs: 19
- Year first recorded: 1969
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Sim reference: Mankind Vol 7, No. 1 (1969) Sheet 1, Fig P. p.57
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 173
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A Daramulan figure on a spur off Mt Kariong; it's the last of five Aboriginal engraving sites documented by Ian Sim.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1966
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Sim reference: Mankind Vol 8 No. 6 (1966). Sheet 2, Fig D. p.352-3
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 161 Series 5
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An Aboriginal engraving site on a spur off Mt Kariong with a very unusual one-legged man (as well as a second man and koala).
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1966
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Sim reference: Mankind Vol 8 No. 6 (1966). Sheet 2, Fig C. p.352-3
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 161 Series 3
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A complex Aboriginal engraving site on a spur off Mt Kariong; it includes four men in a row, fish, kangaroos and a dingo.
- Number of motifs: 17
- Year first recorded: 1966
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Sim reference: Mankind Vol 8 No. 6 (1966). Sheet 2, Fig A. p.352-3
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 161 Series 1
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Shallow shelter on a ridge off Mount Kariong, which has a number of Aboriginal charcoal paintings.
- Number of motifs: 15
- Year first recorded: 1999
A large man with upraised arms, part of a series of Aboriginal engraving sites documented by Ian Sim and Fred McCarthy.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1981
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 3/6 S2
- McCarthy reference: Unpublished Notebook 62C Series 1
An Aboriginal engraving above Debenham Road South of a whale; the figure is very weathered and buried under soil.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1980
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
Aboriginal engraving site with a kangaroo, eel fish and a human-like figure above Debenham Road South.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 1980
A large rock platform near Debenham Road South, which has a single Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection 2/31 S2
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