The area of Ku-ring-gai National Park bounded by Terrey Hills, Duffys Forest and Cowan Creek hides many Aboriginal art sites. About half the sites are shelters along Cowan Creek, and the rest are engraving, cave art and grinding grooves along the many ridges and spurs.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
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A compact Aboriginal engraving site that includes two men and four shields. One of a series of sites documented by Fred McCarthy on Mount Murray Anderson.
- Number of motifs: 9
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1946
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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A very weathered kangaroo at the edge of one of the rock platforms along the Mount Murray Anderson ridge.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
An interesting waterhole to the south-west of Mount Murray Anderson, with multiple overlapping Aboriginal engravings and axe-grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 12
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
A series of Aboriginal engraving sites to the south-west of Mount Murray Anderson, which includes two large whales, a man-emu composite figure and a stone arrangement.
- Number of motifs: 24
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
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Aboriginal engraving of a single shield with two transverse lines, to the east of St Ives Showground.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1980
At the end of the Slade Lookout Track is "fake" engraving of an emu or waterfowl, and a lizard that is almost directly underneath the bird.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Unknown recording date
An Aboriginal engraving site above Smiths Creek, the large rock platform has a pair of clearly-cut emus, a large fish and a shield.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1989
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
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Shelter near Smiths Creek, which has a charcoal drawing of a snake
- Number of motifs: 1
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2021
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
Spirits Rock is a signposted Aboriginal engraving site at the end of the Cowan Trail, which has a number of figures, including a large and detailed engraving of the Baiame deity.
- Number of motifs: 24
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1986
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
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An small Aboriginal engraving site depicting a hunter and his two wives celebrating a successful kangaroo hunt.
- Number of motifs: 15
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1941
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
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The Lyrebird Site in Larool Reserve (Terrey Hills) features an engraving of a lyrebird, as well as many other animal carvings.
- Number of motifs: 31
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1941
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Stanbury and Clegg
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A vertical Aboriginal rock engraving on Smiths Creek, with a frieze containing eleven figures, and an adjacent site with five mundoes
- Number of motifs: 20
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
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Aboriginal engraving of a wallaby on a small rock, above Smith Creek
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
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