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 example of a scarred tree in the Blue Mountains, which has been burnt in the 2019/2020 bushfires.
- Unknown recording date
An impressive display of red, yellow and white Aboriginal hand stencils in a long shelter. The Red Hands Cave is reached via a 1km return walk from the end of the Red Hands Firetrail or a longer 8.2km bushwalk along Campfire Creek.
- Number of motifs: 76
- Year first recorded: 1913
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
A shelter with Aboriginal rock art above the upper reaches of Mullet Creek, which has a number of motifs. As well as hand stencils, there are figures drawn in charcoal and red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 15
- Year first recorded: 2020
The Site of the Emus (or Bird Cave) in McPherson State Forest, a shelter with Aboriginal rock art, gets its name from three emus drawn in red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 15
- Year first recorded: 1978
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
A low but long shelter with Aboriginal rock art along Ellem Gully, which has over 100 motifs in charcoal and red ochre. The figures include many kangaroos and some hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 126
- Year first recorded: 1988
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
Faint charcoal art in a low shelter above Ellem Gully, in McPherson State Forest
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2023
A very small and low shelter with a single Aboriginal red ochre hand stencil.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Unknown recording date
A shelter with Aboriginal rock art, consisting of faint figures and lines in both white and red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Unknown recording date
Inside one of a series of three sandstone shelters along a low cliff-line are some Aboriginal charcoal drawings. The site also has six axe grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1978
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
A small Aboriginal rock art shelter, which contains a few areas painted in red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 1978
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
A rock shelter with Aboriginal hand stencils above Clements Creek. The sandstone wall has extensive graffiti, and many of the stencils are hard to see.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Year first recorded: 1981
The Wilton Shelter is a significant and spectacular Aboriginal rock art site in Sydney's south-west. The long shelter has over 60 motifs, all drawn in charcoal including two life-size kangaroos and a large anthropomorphic figures.
- Number of motifs: 60
- Year first recorded: 1964
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- View site sketch – Southern section / Northern section
A signposted Aboriginal rock art site in Blackdown National Park, the Ghungalu Art Site is along the Goon Goon Dhina Trail. It has mostly hand stencils in red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 20
- Unknown recording date
Aboriginal cave paintings including a kangaro, two birds and some indeterrminate charcoal figures in a shelter above Marramarra Creek.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Year first recorded: 1996
An emu and three (or four) mundoes on a boulder near Duckponds Ridge, in Marramarra National Park.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal rock engraving site near Duckponds Ridge, which has a long line of mundoes, three emus and some other unusual figures.
- Number of motifs: 12
- Year first recorded: 1983
- Originally recorded by: Val Attenbrow
Small group of weathered Aboriginal engravings near the start of the Duckponds Trail in Marramarra National Park
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1979
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
A scarred tree near Duckponds Ridge in Marramarra Narional Park.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Year first recorded: 2016
A significant, signposted Aboriginal engraving site in the Royal National Park, the Jibbon Head Engravings are a short walk from Bundeena. The carvings can be seen from an elevated boardwalk with interpretive signage.
- Number of motifs: 11
- Year first recorded: 1904
Rock outcrop in Canoelands (Marramarra NP) with a kangaroo, emu and fish engravings.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 2001
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
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