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 but very deep shelter above Tootie Creek contains a range of Aboriginal rock art in charcoal as well as white and red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 11
- Year first recorded: 2023
A shelter above Drip Rock Creek, which features a line of 11 koalas and a sinuous snake in charcoal.
- Number of motifs: 15
- Year first recorded: 2009
Aboriginal rock art in a shelter above Angorawa Creek, with three charcoal motifs and two remants of hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 2019
A small shelter with Aboriginal rock art on the wall and ceiling, including birds, men and a woman.
- Number of motifs: 11
- Year first recorded: 2019
A small shelter above New Yard Creek which has a number of different Aboriginal rock motifs, including a human figure, bird track and a snake as well as hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 14
- Year first recorded: 2019
An intiguing Aboriginal rock art site; this shelter along New Yard Creek has multiple parallel lines and a cluster of dots, as well as many hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 30
- Year first recorded: 2019
A well-preserved and significant Aboriginal rock art site, the Blackfellows Hands Cave (Maiyingu Marragu) has over 50 stencils of hands and weapons. It's reached by a short walk.
- Number of motifs: 50
- Year first recorded: 1907
An interesting and complex Aboriginal rock art site in Colo Heights, which has a prominent "starburst" motif as well as many hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 18
- Year first recorded: 2019
A number of charcoal figures, many of them wallabies or kangaroos, along the back of wall of a long shelter above Fitzerald Creek.
- Number of motifs: 15
- Year first recorded: 2023
A publicly accessible (but not signposted) Aboriginal rock art site in Carnarvon Gorge, the Clematis Ridge site has over 100 stencils.
- Number of motifs: 109
- Year first recorded: 1976
- View site sketch
Cathedral Rock is better known for its weathered and fractured sandstone surface, but also has Aboriginal hand strencils at its base.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Unknown recording date
A spectacular Aboriginal rock art site, The Tombs in the Mount Moffat section of Carnarvon National Park has over 400 stencils. The site has the only full adult body stencil known to exist in the world.
- Number of motifs: 400
- Unknown recording date
Once a popular Aboriginal rock art site at Carnarvon Gorge, Baloon Cave was badly damaged by fire in 2018. Some of the stencils are intact, but many have been lost.
- Number of motifs: 111
- Unknown recording date
- View site sketch
Ten hand stencils in a small Aboriginal rock art site above the West Branch Camping Area in the Mount Moffat section of Carnarvon National Park.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Unknown recording date
A signposted Aboriginal rock art site in the Mount Morgan section of Carnarvon National Park, the Kookaburra Cave is named after a stencil that resembles a kookaburra.
- Number of motifs: 40
- Unknown recording date
Just past the Marlong Arch in the Mount Morgan section of Carnarvon National Park is a small Aboriginal hand stencil site.
- Number of motifs: 16
- Unknown recording date
A small Aboriginal rock engraving site below Hat Hill in Blackheath, which has emu (or bird) prints and grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 13
- Year first recorded: 1985
Shaws Creek Aboriginal Place contains a small Aboriginal engraving, which has two kangaroos and five kangaroo tracks - and an additional carving likely to be European. There are also multiple axe grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 7
- Year first recorded: 1948
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
The Kings Tableland Aboriginal Place is a significant Aboriginal site in the Blue Mountains, which has a large number of grinding grooves and a shelter with carvings on the wall of animal tracks.
- Number of motifs: 8
- Year first recorded: 1973
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection, Site 7 (Blue Mountains)
An Aboriginal engraving of a small fish along the Hardys Bay Trail in Bouddi National Park.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 2018
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