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 sloping rock platform near Debenham Road South, which has about 10 Aboriginal engravings (including an emu and multiple fish).
- Number of motifs: 10
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection 2/31
An impressive Aboriginal rock art gallery in a tall but shallow shelter near Jacks Trail. Most of the art consists of charcoal figures, with some red ochure figures and faint hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 45
- Year first recorded: 2018
A shelter with Aboriginal rock art in a gully near Jacks Track, which has over 50 motifs. They include drawings in charcoal, white and red ochre, and hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 50
- Year first recorded: 2018
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
A small but deep waterhole with axe grinding grooves next to Jacks Track in St Albans
- Year first recorded: 2022
An Aboriginal engraving site near Kowara Road in Somersby, which has five figures including two unusually-shaped macropods.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1960
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 2/45
- View site sketch
A small Aboriginal engraving site which is in the grounds of the Broken Bay Sport and Recreation Centre. The site has eleven figures, including a man, bi-sexual figure, kangaroo and fish.
- Number of motifs: 11
- Year first recorded: 1966
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Mankind Vol 6, No. 8 (1966). Sheet 1, Fig A. p.347
- McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 146
- View site sketch
Weathered Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo (and two grinding grooves) above Peats Ridge Road at Calga.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 4/12
An Aboriginal art shelter above Peats Ridge Road, which has a charcoal drawing of a kangaroo; above the shelter is a mundoe.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Year first recorded: 1979
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim, R Taplin
Aboriginal rock site above Peats Ridge Road, which has four kangaroos and a figure described by Ian Sim as a Rainbow Serpent,
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim, Bob Pankhurst
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 4/13
- View site sketch (Bob Pankhurst)
An interesting Aboriginal engraving site in Calga, which includes hunting weapons and two squid, and a very large number of grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 11
- Year first recorded: 1944
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 4/5
- View site sketch
A rock engraving site in Calga with a Daramulan figure on rocky platform surrounded by swamp.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1979
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: NARRARA Mankind Group 19
- View site sketch
A small Aboriginal engraving site in Calga, which has a man next to what appears to be a dog, and two emus.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1979
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim, Warren Bluff
A small and isolated Aboriginal engraving seat near Peats Ridge Road, which depicts either a man in a canoe or a Daramulan figure,
- Number of motifs: 4
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
A panting in red ochre described as a "horned anthropomoph" near Mogo Creek.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1985
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
Two adjacent and potentially related Aboriginal rock engraving sites near Boree Valley Road, which depict a koala, two kangaroos and over 30 animal tracks.
Three Aboriginal hand stencils (two of them quite weathered) in a shelter below Finchley Campground in Yengo National Park.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2024
Large Aboriginal rock shelter in the Big Yango Precinct, which has weathered charcoal drawings and two hand stencils.
- Year first recorded: 2018
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
A long but very low shelter in the Big Yango Precinct, which contains 22 tally marks engraved in the sandstone.
- Number of motifs: 22
- Year first recorded: 1986
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
Very weathered Aboriginal hand stencil on the base of Mount Yengo.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 2018
A long shelter with Aboriginal rock art, including hand and arm stencils, and tally marks.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Year first recorded: 2018
INDIGENOUS SITES BY PARK
