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.
An Aboriginal engraving of a marine creature along the Hardys Bay Trail in Bouddi National Park.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 2018
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 1/14
An Aboriginal engraving site which has two large whales - both swimming in the same direction but on separate rock platforms - along Hardys Bay Trail in Bouddi National Park.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 2018
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 1/13
Most likely representing an emu hunt, the Ticehurst Park Aboriginal engraving site in Faulconbridge has three very distinct emu carvings, as well as six mundoes (footprints) and a number of axe grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 7
- Year first recorded: 1946
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- McCarthy reference: COOK Mankind Group 24
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site in Muogamarra Nature Reserve, which has a single carving of a whale.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Mankind Group 59
- View site sketch
Two weathered Aboriginal engravings depicting what may be a deity or cultural hero of the Daramulan type and his wife, on a rock platform along the Djarra ridge.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
- McCarthy reference: COWAN Mankind Group 60
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A rock platform near the Kimmerikong Trail has Aboriginal engravings whch include a row of ten fish, and a very weathered human figure.
- Number of motifs: 13
- Year first recorded: 2007
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
The Yankee Hat Rock Art Site in Namadgi National Park consists of 18 motifs, in white and red ochre, representing a range of animals as well human-like forms. It's reached by a 6km return bushwalk.
- Number of motifs: 18
- Unknown recording date
- View site sketch
A sandstone shelter near The Scenic Road which has a panel of Aboriginal rock art, including a bird, part of a kangaroo and many indeterminate figures.
- Number of motifs: 8
- Year first recorded: 1994
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
A single Aboriginal hand stencil in a small shelter below The Scenic Road
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 2022
A small group of Aboriginal engravings on a spur above Maitland bay. The figures include a shark, fish, an eel and a shield.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 1/8
A signposted rock engraving site in Bouddi National Park, the North West Ridge Aboriginal Site has four figures - but only a 4m orca is still visible.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Year first recorded: 1994
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
A mundoe is on a small rock in front of a low shelter, which contains some very weathered Aboriginal cave art.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1956
An Aboriginal rock shelter in Wollemi National Park, which contains over 100 motifs, including a number of deity figures.
- Number of motifs: 40
- Year first recorded: 2022
An Aboriginal rock art site with two charcoal figures in a small shelter near the Bowen Hill Trail in the Wollemi NP.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Year first recorded: 2023
An Aboriginal engraving of a woman with upstretched arms, on a small and isolated rock platform.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 2019
An interesting panel containing Aboriginal cave paintings in a shelter near Bilpin. Most of the figures are painted in charcoal.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Year first recorded: 2022
- Originally recorded by: Mark Roebuck
It's a short hike to the signposted Red Rock Canyon Petroglyph Wall, where there are both pictographs and petroglyphs at the base of a tall cliff.
- Number of motifs: 15
- Unknown recording date
An Aboriginal engraving site on the ridge above Lobster Beach in Bouddi NP, which has a man, a fish and what may be a mantra ray.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2019
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 1/15
An Aboriginal engraving site near the Flannel Flower Walking Track in Bouddi NP, which has multiple ovals/circles, two shields and a club or boomerang.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 1/15
An Aboriginal engraving site in Bouddi NP, with a single carving of a kangaroo.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Sim reference: Sim Collection Site 1/17
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